The flags unfurled fly gloriously. Tipsy barmaids fill the empty glasses gleaming in the publight, frothy with beer foam dripping from the fine-ground edges as I drink. Where is yesterday? As lost as week-old flowers? And regret that turns out pockets ā is he gone as well?
I hear the flags flap grandly. Cannons boom across the brimming beer. A girl as young as any takes my arm lifting me to the resurrection. Voices mirror sounds as soft as fish vās in still water.
an early poem reprinted in "Poems People Liked (2)"