Le Fou By Robert Creeley

for Charles

who plots, then, the lies
talking, taking, always the beat from
the breath
(moving slowly at first
the breath
which is slow—

I mean, the graces come slowly,
it is that way.

So slowly (they are waving
we are moving
away from(the trees
the usual (go by)
which is slower than this, is
(we are moving!
goodbye