The perceval is a square in air.
A single one can cover the globe
but no less than one can cover the human heart.
One exists for every atom
or hovers over the beggar in the subway.
One contains a pair of subatomic particles
separated by miles but matching spin
or expands over grandfather's grave
to contain the flowers, pumpkin, and M&M's
placed there by his grandchildren.
One exists for each rivet that holds
the steel trusses of the bridge we go under everyday
or cocoons the Inuit elder
who walks onto the ice to sit and wait
when the food in his village is not enough.
One covers the stars and nebulae in the Oort Cloud
or envelops a supercluster of galaxies
between unimaginably vast regions of void.
A broken one held the passengers of Flight 800
as they flew free of a cockpit through 2 miles of ocean night air.

One perceval holds all that you have done.



			Brandywine
			1/27/99