29 November 2007

For Patrick

Your pea-coat
is seasons old

and that Signet
Classics rag
you hold

is typeset
right to
the edge

—right to
the edge.

and your hair
is straight
and dry

and that cut
upon your thigh
sustained

in brown pants
while plans
we've laid

in He-Man shirts
and thin
sweatshirts

for having a
cup of coffee.

If they rebuilt
the Sears
Tower larger,

by proportion,
more space
would be

unusable.