Simon Says

Simon Saysrnby Thomas FlemingrnOratorio San GiovannirnUrbino, Good Friday 1994rnYou ask me who I am or what I was,rnthis boy cocking his leg to check a toernfor thorns, painted in plaster, obliviousrnto nature-boy who's read too much Thoreaurnducking a stranger in the stream; the birdrnfluttering down on cue . . .