Drawn Blank

For Pope Benedict XI & Bill Berkson

A seagull wheels & pivots in the sky
describing the arc of a compass

a prayer-wheel windchime
racking up the zeroes

a roundelay

a self-devouring hula hoop
                                                rolling downhill

I don’t know, Bill, what else?

                              a bubble in a mile of milk?

something concentric like Kandinsky
singing
                              doo-wah-ditty-dum
ditty-doom

& standing outside the Del Taco in Ventura
on Chinese New Year
                                                                in the rain
Giotto dips his brush in red
paint
                                                & in one continuous stroke
                              draws a perfect circle