Mortal Peril
Pisces youth
Voiced upfront
Let's act
So many lives
He gathered
Virtue
________________ Lullaby
Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles await you when you rise
Sleep little darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby*
Moonlight bear you on her beams
Carry you away in dreams
Starlit spaces softly glow
We who love you wait below
Angels bend to where you sleep
You a promise they will keep
Sun will rise into the sky
Come to kiss the night goodbye
Sleep little darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby
*Thomas Dekker, 16th
century
Paul McCartney, 20th century
Rubens, Head
of a Child, c. 1615
Angel
I may as well share
My happy moments she said
The three year old child
_______________ Knowledge
Off in the distance
Were muted cries
Round the white
Rippling stop and go ball
The broad green free of wind
While we stood
Watching speaking of
The prized soul we saw
Small but well-made
Never off-balance or ill-timed
Moving as a consciousness
Comfortable on the ground
In the congested bruising game
If he wants this himself
My host was saying
A kind of nobility
And anguish finely mixed
I'll help in any way
Can we want
Freely and alone
Detached from the weave
Friends family blood chance
Mute figures in the museum
Uncertain shadows of familiar rooms?
Yet he already wanted:
Made definite choice
When to wake what to wear
Long white tunic
Athlete's shorts
A shower always
Ready for the world
Now at last returning
From the scatter of noise
Accepting praises he
Was around the ball
Did not slow down...
Erect and slight
Watching the road
Hair dankened to dark
Responding almost
Unconcernedly yes
I know
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