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MODERN AGE

FALL 2014

Half-vested still, I stepped out on the porch,
And there he stood and worked a rattan cane
Beneath his thumb compulsively . . . in dark
Broadcloth alone against that wind without
A flinch-black hair and eyes-
charcoal mustache-
The face too white-soft collar wide and rolled
Like scribblers' in a boulevard café.
He doffed and said, "Good morrow, Father," bowed,
And seemed to want a special word from me,
Some cued response (recall how players on
The stage will try to aid another when
He's lost his lines).
I stood there dumb, but he,
To move the scene, spoke like a biloquist
("Benedicite!"), smiled, and bowed again.
"You're Catholic?"
"My Asia thought it so."
His left hand took the cane, and with his snubbed
Right thumb he gestured at the early sun:
"What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light
To grubs and eyeless skulls?"

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