IMPROVISATION#257
SUDDENLY

Suddenly in the long hall
in a sweat and instinct
from Moscow, Idaho
you bet on politicians
gambling on numbers
horses, dogs
chess,cards,checkers
with links to
the red and black
while reading Stendahl
or Fyodor Dostoevsky
wearing a fur hat
writes about his Christian
characters in a snow valley
knowingly today
language speaks to all
internationally.