interrogate Tom Clark
         in the church basement
                 he tries to answer you
 make small noises during Barbara Guest
           in the neighborhood library
                  All Saints' Day last year
                           Todos Santos in the back room
 elucidate Charles Olson
          with yr inpenetrable light
                    Creeley stops to listen
                            in the alumni lounge

 Larry Eigner applied
           to the museum's facade
 words as diaphanous
                            as the twilight
 Larry Eigner on tv
          my tape runneth out
 I'll have to memorize
         yr intuitive typewriter

 Larry, the rain today
                          in Berkeley
           is falling
           straight
           down
                    on tumbling wisteria
 under the eaves
                   a copper spider
                   frets his web
                                                   in mid-air
 

                                             1 APR 96
                                              (spontaneous poem)
 

                                                                        —Stephen Ronan