Vienna

April 2012 Emerge Literary Journal (on-line only) from "Suicide, 1964" “Vienna” http://issuu.com/emergeliteraryjournal/docs/emerge_issue_2?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage

Vienna

Now, it's just a matter of taking this handful of notes,

to wonder how they fit into my life.

I would like to believe I took them down

for a reason. One that goes back to Virgil's Aeneid,

a book I know I'll never read, something spoken

by the goddess Juno. One, the title of a painting,

one the title of another, one the brief note

written on the back of a postcard in 1912.

If I cannot bend the high powers, I will move the infernal regions,

The Castle in the Sea, Autumn Tree in Turbulent Air

and I will telegraph once I know when I will come.

For the time being I don't know how long I will stay.