With a hand freed from weight, What? What can you do? The form sought for centuries by To pick up even the quickening of wind Winds blow sharp, what then? And piled up at the base of the columns Archangel Winter, darkness on his back High on this surface, guarding the edge of Pere Wheel tracks entrench themselves in snow, yet painted In dense bare branches, or the ubiquitous Rain. We are forced to fly, Late February, and the air's so balmy Between the vertex that the far-lit gray Among us, only Alberti, then Sangallo, at balls hit again and again toward her offspring. With sun's warmth wasted on a stone, Between the high and the low, in this night. they sit with their wives all day in the sun, In a single floral stroke,