ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS
Sequence: 7
VISIT
Buying toys, the one remaining copy
of A World of Breads, walking chilled by rain,
the talk about rent and the dangerous swing
of the blind man's cane, the city with its
youth in the streets waiting for a table,
its dirty man with his trashbag of eyeglasses
(bent, broken, glittering), your hand lightly
on my elbow, the house of deaf men
where my loud laughter makes
lights flash in alarm--you are released
to go to Prague again, I stay behind,
white-topped mountains, elegant shadows
of trees, angels of earth, angels of air,
change, the real cost of parting,
leaving for Prague again,
you are always leaving for Prague.