the Blue Drawing Room
is above the Abbot’s
Sitting Room
the blue fireplace is
above the
Abbot’s fireplace
(below that —
fireplaces
all the way down)
the East Wing
— missing
in action
the deer
in the deer park
— eaten
antlers over
the Great
Door
a woman under
-neath wheezing
in chiffon
dear lady
(up since dawn
roping
things off)
do you know
can you say the
real reason
why
the fish
sank?
the mistress
fled?
what the King
was doing for
so many
days —
half-in/
half-out of that
window?
