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'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark
Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home;
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
Our coming, and look brighter when we come;
-- from Don Juan Canto I, CXIII by Lord Byron
(Ed note: Every reading of Don Juan yields a new pleasurable discovery. Johnny wasn't in our lives when I first read Byron's poem so this passage did not leave a lasting impression. -- sdh)
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
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