EPILOGUE
 
           This infancy of fountains
            air with the color of steel        your future
            the shadows thin    the street sounds
            above the fruited plain      the center which does not
            all in all     a port         a launching pad 
            for you    cup     glass    chair    room
            the world    and all
            lost objects      your past
                      
                                        Nicomedez Suárez-Araúz
                                        Lost Objects / Phantom Objects, 1978


@ Nicomedes Suarez-Arauz, 1984, 1988.
republished in The Stiffest of the Corpse, edited by Andrei Codrescu
(City Lights Books, 1989)