“Tell me of your reactions and discoveries” 

1.

A recently unearthed

scrap of paper found between

pages 502 and 503, of a large

volume of “Latin American Poetry”

published by “New Directions” in 1942,

remains a mystery to me in that a notation

under the heading, written in my young

mother’s delicate cursive states:

“Tell me of your reactions and discoveries.”

It is meant to be sent to someone named “Lee”,

which could be interpreted as Olympia Pieroni,

called: “Lee” my mother’s next older sister, and

mother to Paul Pieroni, the great knuckleballer

of city-wide CYO baseball lore.

In time's past I might have tracked this mystery

to those who might have had some recollection of it,

adding necessary input into the meaning of its existence.

But everyone’s long gone to explore their circumstance

of afterlife bequeathed to them by the flotsam of the Big Bang.

As such, it will end here, splitting Carmen Alicia Cadilla's

Spanish transcription: "Responsos," p. 502,

and it's English translation: "Responsories" p. 503.  

2.

So,–– so long to all who had knowledge of this scrap's

beginnings with Annie Pieroni's notation dancing across it.

I hope you’ve found the Heaven you were promised

through the articles of the new testament by way of Priest.

But even with that, we’ll not meet again.