POE ON BOSTON COMMON

Visiting this monument
adorned with my opening
with a Bach violin solo
revised in jazz riffs
and after to visit
here on Castle Island
my hand reaches out
to the Ghost's vision
of Poe stationed on this cliff
exchanging rosin for my bow
your footsteps still embrace
the gothic and gnostic
in a hearsay heresy
to answer a vassal back
from a moment's darkness
capturing onto a poet's grace
 "No" and "Yes."