A JAMESIAN MOMENT

Needing a Jamesian moment
in Manhattan or Paris

when you are always here
over five stories to tell

love from a mismatch
from an old understanding

to catch an abandoned train
of the master's thought

only for art's forsaking us
do we speak in luminous tones

an all clear signal
by the deserted wind

to signal for tendrils
and exiles by the river run

that he too trembles
with us at this hour.