14.
Lately, in my dreams, I hear long sentences
meaningless in ordinary American--
like your mother too was a missionary of poets.
And in another dream, one of my old teachers shows me a letter
of reference he has written for me in a language I know to be
English but cannot understand telling me
it's in transformational grammar,
and that the student who typed the letter does not understand
this grammar either.
Lately I dreamed about my father,
how I found him alive seated on an old chair.
I think what he said to me was, "you
don't know how lonely I am."