to embrace something with the wisdom of the final round
people crowding the boulevard in Baltimore
to watch Robert Kennedy’s funeral train pass
overhead
in that portrait of seven famed figures
Annie, turned to stone under a blue-jay feather
how that small town in snow looks more like Pennsylvania
or Midwest
than New England
Blake, the Muggletonian and lithographer
the surviving Beats portrayed
as Ginsberg tying a shoelace
would see something with the sharpness of the first time
all that baroque light over a cathedral altar
the cumulus effect
enveloping a solo deer
naked
in the garden
awaiting snowfall
Poem copyright 2016 by Jnana Hodson
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