"Influences in Poetry"

    Dream:

      In a room    getting ready for a party
      with Dotty,
        Ducan MacNaughton comes in and says
        "Stephen Rodefer is on his way here to kill you!
        You'd better hide."

        We run to the bathroom
        and lock the door.

        Come to think of it
        Duncan looks pretty strange himself.

      "There's only room for one
      at the top of the steeple"
      -Robert Frost




    reprinted from Just Space: poems, 1979-1989, Black Sparrow Press, 1991