I AM MY FATHER’S ONLY UNBORN DAUGHTER.
I gave birth to my mother and am responsible for her death.

Someone who believes that at least one part of her 

He stayed up late, staved off sleep, wandered, drank,
as if sleep were a kind of devouring,
as if it would masticate and spit him out at dawn

Cézanne has placed a surly easel
in what is still not there.
He feels the geology of absence,

Zeuxis painted grapes so real
that birds came down
to peck, but Parrhasius painted

                                  We all came down with it
in the seventeenth century, back

                                  when it was still possible
to die.

She was only a woman, and no more 
than his latest wife who was commanded 
not to come before him without the grant

Of course it was animus projection
or neurosis or even a psychotic
episode. It was codependence and

           Once more
  The rain coerces memory,
  And shadows cast upon the door 

Anglo-Saxon Sally operates between Third and Lexington—
she makes large claims:
“Forecasts — Future — Past—Present”

Maresfield Gardens, his last address.
The exiled Old Man talking less and less,
Too aware of his steel jaw’s clicking
And the fifty minute hours ticking