-the source of light on the water-

Requiem for Mihaela Ursuleasa

1.

It begins well enough
in the light of early morning
looking out across the river,

arranging the most common of things,

tuning-in to the young concert pianist
keying-in Alberto Ginastera.

(It's true I have 59 friends, 40 of whom

won’t show-up for the memorial service.

they don’t know how tall I am,

the distance from my hat to my history,

my ass from my elbow, the last
unsettling count of my natural teeth

or what it was that caused me to come to this place)

but she wakes-up in Vienna,

walks a few steps toward the instrument

and drops dead at 33 from a pathological finding:

"...due to intracerebral commotion.”

which

mad plan of God is this?

2.

It begins well enough in the light of early morning

getting the common stuff ready.

first there’s the light source and then there's the river.

                                             August 2, 2012