come on, try it, one pebble,
two pebbles, three pebbles,
four dropped in the pond
among the goldfish
there the logic went
there click the dear dice
of a life’s swim for it
1001 letters of the alphabet
thunder in our footsteps
and the diaphanous heart
is at the door on the edge
of it here---there---where---
then---when of it
for James Joyce
17 February 2004