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REX WILDER's poems have appeared in Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review and Barrow Street. SÉVERINE AT THE ALBERGO RISTORANTE ABOVE LAKE COMO An early shower the morning after a storm And a desperate craving for coffee on the terrace. Vapors rising from the brilliant lake's surface. The iron slatted chairs still wet where the wind Blew in the rain from the west. No waiters anywhere. The earth writing me down like a journal entry, Trying to fit me in before I'm out. Me, unbearably Happy. To love well, I tell Thirst, my companion, Is to live in mourning for the living. Why bother With sunrise if not to put the darkness behind us, To lavish attention on what wakes up, too? |