WITH MY TELESCOPE

Resting with my telescope
by my snowy window
hopeful of my lecture
at a colleagues seminar
on Thursday next noon
prepared at my studio attic,
sticking here
amid the cool woodsy air
hoping to view
a shadowy star
about the harvest moon
yet I'm thinking about
what Picasso said,
when discussing culture
for our art's colloquy
''You become what you are."