C.K.WILLIAMS'S LEGACY
(1936- Sept.20, 2015)

Among my passing on friends
by the earth -wise open books
of C.K. Williams
from overclouded mornings
you understood the reality
as the long suffering bends
in knowledge of being human
at an age and edge of longing
for answers to our Muse
you taught us by the Charles
near the river run of the dawn
hearing the song birds
in the woods near the museum
of the Back Bay Fens
from academic open windows
as we view sails below us
in cruise races
from the Longfellow bridge
and grey brick shadows
locating new languages
from unstamped student maps
in winters harsh as ruddy faces
who come to learn Virgil
Dante, Milton and Donne
as our lamps still enlighten
the dorm rooms
and boarding houses
of Brighton
and out to Cambridge.