Yonnie

		1

Beneath the ivory lady
  of mercy
Red wings
upon a silver tray
a gold bracelet laid
there before retiring.

Real love, at last
half-pretending, half Creel-
eys,
  her voice
  			as if youth should go on forever
  		beneath a blue star.
  		
  		2
  		
Listening in the dark
to a piano thirty years old,
it's not as in the old days,
when I got up,

  I had to cross the room
  to turn on the light
  
  now it's beside the bed,
  when I write "ASSEZ."
  
[1972]