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 wittenberg

the weekly assembly gathers monday
departs from the town at dawn

i want shame to creep   heat   blush
up your neck into your face
as 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