Sonnets Down The Stretch #1

1.

Do we know how little we know about tomorrow

which happens to be February nineteenth,

the last day to trade in the NBA?

That knowledge is a problem like the view

from the foot of one of several volcanoes.

At home one can always wonder what

about is not home.  The volcanoes always think

through vents or altogether beneath detection.

There is also a major employer from the middle

ages still reclining in her office,

smiling as though a private joke has flown

through the incredible view; even her

credulity is strained not at the rumors

but the very possibilities.