Spring and All: XI [In passing with my mind]

In passing with my mind

on nothing in the world

but the right of way

I enjoy on the road by

virtue of the law        —

I saw

an elderly man who

smiled and looked away

to the north past a house —

a woman in blue

who was laughing and

leaning forward to look up

into the man’s half

averted face

and a boy of eight who was

looking at the middle of

the man’s belly

at a watchchain —

The supreme importance

of this nameless spectacle

sped me by them

without a word —

Why bother where I went ?

for I went spinning on the

four wheels of my car

along the wet road until

I saw a girl with one leg

over the rail of a balcony