Classic Poem

4

Immigrants from Warsaw
move into a furnished room
close to the stores
under St. Chrysostom's carillon
with a porcelain pitcher
and bath and hand towels
on the bed rails.

A new sign appears
in the ground-floor window:
Smocking, Hemstitching, Rhinestone Setting

Our hour from here
a loggia
above the pepper trees
a tiny cascade and vines
above the bath house
men and women driving
on the fairway, laughing

surrounded by Galloway
pottery, garden furniture
and white daisies.