Jake's Flea Market

i hear that you’ve sworn to abdicate 
from your scholarship here at this university

to walk away 
from the vacation of your dormitory 

from the evacuation 
of your fortunes from this wittenberg

the weekly assembly gathers monday
departs from the town at dawn

let shame creep   heat   blush 
up your neck into your face before you

walk across the empire
smell the seawater of the scheldt

strut to the edge of a wall around a moat 

wave across water at a castle 
window that won’t   be the window 
into the room where nora resides