Links of Snow
Snow to me, I say,
Is what bananas are to
Gabriel Marquez!
I thought snow useless
Until I saw a book sez:
Economic Snow.
A physicist cried:
Wake up, David, you never
Thought snow was useful!?
No, no, no., never
Have I ever thought that snow
Was useful! To skis
trees, warming flowers,
giving symbolists white hours–
SNOW IS NOT MONEY!
A snowman blinks, War.
Time of the empire, fat whore!
On the lawn, new snow!
*****
As if pardoned from
death by the Czar of all Rus:
he received her note!
Swifter than haiku,
deeper than Prospero's book,
E-mail like snow…Look! [DS, 1 / 17 / 03]
Music of Poetry, and Ginsberg’s Box Remembered
Violin on floor —
Haven't practiced in months now–
Hear planes in the air!
Mute violin there–
No more sound than Al's squeeze-box–
Practice haiku more-! DS, 1 / 18 / 03
Greetings from my hut
in Manhattan where I slept
late this cold morning.
Breakfast at noon, no
strings but a piano plays
"Shall We Dance" (Rodgers).
Yes, I still live back
in the fifties in Brooklyn
cheering the Dodgers. (DL, 1/ 18 / 03]
Borges: Baseball is a metaphysical game because it need never conclude
And I in NJ
I make the snowy commute
Over the nude bridge!
How I've ended there!
Baseball metaphysical–
It may never end!
I walked Weequahic Park ("wekwak”)
Now my family is gone—
Let's take mental walk! (DS, 1 / 19 / 03]