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Summer 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 3 • Poetry |

Incomplete Renunciation

Please let me have
a 10-room house adjacent to campus;
6 bedrooms, 2?/2 baths, formal
dining room, frplace, family room,
screened porch, 2-car garage.
Well maintained. And let it pass
through the eye of a needle.

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