For one who first showed me Scipio's Dream

Culhane, Brian For one who first showed me Scipio's Dream The Hudson Review. 7/1/2006 Professor Alan S. Fisher, d. 2003 Alan, it is late. This bar is closing And all your fine talk Won't buy us a drink. No, | haven't forgotten You are lately deadWalking, mid-step, fallen. So like you to leave Walking and thinking: Your fighter's squint Unable to make out The final stroke. Alan, the bar is closing And I'm for the cold. It's grown dark, But you're still laughing, Quoting: And that one talent oale m er AD += PE À. Which is death to hide. . . I'd laugh with you But all my money's spent. Your faded corduroy Jacket's off the hook. No more literature tonight. Not even a last look. [Author Affiliation] BRIAN CULHANE* teaches English and film at an independent school in Seattle. Copyright Hudson Review Summer 2006