PART V
 … WORLD WITHOUT END, AMEN

Some things lighten nightfall
and make a Rembrandt of a grief.
But mostly the swiftness of time
is a joke; on us. The flame-moth
is unable to laugh. What luck.
The myths are dead
.
.…

STAN RICE
“Poem on Crawling into Bed: Bitterness”
Body of Work (1983)