Our Man in Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix: "Sweet Bird of Youth." (A'pres Tennessee Williams.)

 Our Man in Europe, now Belize, DAVE DELACROIX: "Sweet Bird of Youth." (A'pres Tennessee Williams.)

"Sweet Bird of youth."

...Sweet bird of youth, soft, tanned, tonal flair & all the diamonds in your golden hair. A midnight kiss, a Moon alight, a gleaming, a Tyger-Tyger in a jungle night?

Sweet bird of youth, an Act within a Play to prick the conscience of an aging world; a trouble, a cloud, a worrisome horizon, a loves re-doubt!? A timetable un-registered! A CHASM"s fading shouts triple ECHO smolder like kisses of clay.

Sweet bird of youth lost too soon. A legend-illusion like the Man on the Moon, lost like ATLANTIS & all of its joys enjoyed now by proxy; GONE! And SWEPT, now astray. Prince or Pauper. Away-away! Sweet bird of youth -marooned on the moon.

Sweet bird of youth, an ICARUS flight, a place in the Sun, loves waxwings un-wind. A Song of Songs. A SAGA chant! A silent chorale un-sounds as birds' wings in the sky, noiselessly shadow! That sweet bird of youth, no more sings your song. That Tyger-Tyger prowls thru the night.

c.2026. Dave Delacroix/aged 70.