• When I Tended Bar in the Colosseum, the Crowd Loved Poetry
• but when my recitations ended
• dizzy and sweating
• i would evaporate
• rise through the colonnade
• ineluctably like smoke
• and never return to earth
• i can feel togethernesses
• floating nearby
• encircling one another
• i look at the leaves unfurling
• together on a branch
• i think about the group of friends
• who tend these gardens