ANNOTATION

After the debris
of the rain
by the doorway's wild roses
in the cool drafts
of the poem's seventh
revision, Anno Domino
the desolation of feeling
sings out of hyacinth
with nothing to speak of
but a mock- heroic couple
who are obviously in love
disclosing of trying to rent
a penthouse sublet
for the summer
and then I'm going back
to my couplets
in pentameter
from demotic failure
by the pepper tree
feeling for Hebraic roots
like Jeremiah
under the Juniper
for a linguistic prophesy
that makes sense
in heroic sequences
desiring of a catholic tercet
away from roped voices
from the dry bones sea
by vatic proposal
in nones stained glass
away from manic disposal
of the refrained intellect
and having rejected my past
which outlasts all laughter
and irony of mimesis
beginning in the genesis
of B.C.E.,eyeing
all the resources of pleasure
of the younger in white shirts
making money
on Wall Street and the bourse
within the skirts of time
taking Odysseus course
on a journey
without a catalog
even in Tagalog
from Forbes-Burney
in solid patrimony
and departed legal
tender parsimony
having resolved in oath
and deed to forsake my need
of a drone's analysis
for a ship to locate Tiresias
yet completing my elegy
from my mentors,
confessors and professors
with the knowledge
of the martyrs
unlike Uncle Sam's go- getters
by critics of Spinoza's clocks
walking slowly in New Amsterdam
by districts of the Orthodox
thinking of Robert Browning's
"Rabbi Ezra" and his black locks
promise to write letters
to my era's betters.