Your exit
Was Olympian, in the original sense
History, in the making.
How could the house
Not come down –
How could the house
Not come down –
After you left it so exquisitely
Behind?
And how you turned your retreat into wisdom
In a way that Plato himself could not ignore,
A thousand hands clap in your direction
And who am I to say it’s not deserved?
subincontinentia 