When headlights
careen, He, too,
dances freely
with the snow cinders,
First sidling right,
then shuffling,
to the legato bray of tires,
towards left shoulder,
pirouetting,
near shoulder,
syncopating now, left
middle,
right.
--time-lapse illumination
compressed into time-warp
enlightenment--
In the split of an instant,
the staccato report of
pavement-meeting-shoulder-
meeting-escarpment-meeting-
sheet metal-meeting-glass-
meeting-sunroof-meeting-
glass-meeting-scalp-
meeting-pavement,
freezes amidst a vivace
sweep of headlights.
Then, abruptly, sweetly,
sweet fermata,
and finally,
heavenly, warm
red rain.

In the great hall we separate.
You seek Madonnas
the bodies of Christ
profundities and
intermittent resurrections,
then, oddly, Dali, "Agnostic’s Dilemma"
ncountable but accountable.
Pour moi . . .
Renoir’s earthly pleasures.
But of course, Degas and Cezanne,
"Apres bathe" and "Bathers."