To the Sound (As in Pilgrim's Progress) Of Trumpets

July 16, 1980

There are those who can only be conceived of when they go as mounting -- mounting -- beyond an escarpment, glimpsed from below before mists re-envelope where we are Or, as a mariner (known to be sworn to a proven chart) who suddenly is beheld not turned, with the other craft, towards port but there -- out there! -- far and alone rounding a great cape with sails full-blown