You flew them for me in the gray swallowing rainbows and yes warning me
Those stupid banners on tiny dangerous
Beachside corridors, every one recounting
A crash-landing flyover
over and over and over and over and
Still I declined
Reason, seeing,
Familiar warnings. Said no
Said yes
I could not have been warned
In more metaphor
And still I said again that maybe
I don’t have seafaring eyes or
This isn’t the world I know or that
Your off-key tune was
Music enough for me,
Full of foreboding:
For whom the bell
Spins another
No—another
Unheeded
Cautionary fable, a permutation of the ever elder
Ange en danger
Autrefois et encore
theme and variations 