Secret Project

Friday, February 5

In The Necessary Angel, Wallace Stevens says

it’s hard to imagine how things were, standing under

the statue of a famous general in the garden of your native town.

Two filmmakers had me stand on the bridge across the intracoastal waterway

in Delray Beach named after my father and point at the brass plaque. The

Jack L. Saunders Bridge. I could sleep under it, just as the rich could.

Nobody knew me there from Adam’s housecat. Or Job’s turkey.