5502. I WENT ON FROM THERE

I WENT ON FROM THERE

Midnight in Moscow, or some other precious time : I

walked past the Outbid Palace, crying in my heart.

This yesterday was over and all the diamonds in the

Orthodox world could never outdo these icons in

my mind. I remembered where I'd been, and why.

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Outside the hilltop mansion, on some Catskill peak,

all those dogs barking and the man with the Jeep;

two sacks of groceries, to keep him a week. He's

hard at work, hiding out, seeking solace, away

from the world as on an Alpine peak.

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Sometimes it happens like this, even before we get old:

confused and audacious, not knowing the this from the that,

mixed up with all things, the eithers and the ors. I am a

shining urn, dispensing some rich, dark flow. I bring,

or at least I hope to bring, a Grace to the world,

of a heavenly place and presence never seen

before. As 'adios' means 'go with God',

so too I mean every word.