Sat for three days in a white room
a tiny truck of white flowers
was driving through the empty window
to warn off your neighbors
and their miniature flashlights.
by afternoon
across the lake
a blind sportsman had lost his canoe.
He swam,
by evening
toward the paper cup
of my hand.
At dawn,
clever housewives tow my Dutch kitchen
across the lawn.
and in the mail a tiny circus
filled with ponies
had arrived.
You,
a woman with feathers
have come so often lately
under my rubber veranda,
that I’m tearing apart all those tactless warnings
embroidered across your forehead.
Marc,
I’m beginning to see those sounds
that I never even thought
I would hear.