By the Exit at King Kullen a violinist

is playing the theme from Schindler’s list.

It’s August, here & now in the land of

bounty. Inside, 400 hundred yogurts &

4 kinds of fat. Can we talk about that?

Harvest Peach, Luscious Lemon, Cherry,

Raspberry Supreme. Outside, I cross

& thank Alex as drivers roll down their

windows & hand him crumpled cash.

Conservatory, no work, 3 kids, a new born.

Would you play Vivaldi? I ask. The 4 Seasons?

Summer? A staccato swoon. I leave a $20

& turn to cry. Vivaldi a violinist too,

died in poverty in Vienna. July 1741.

Miranda Beeson is the author of Wildlife (Spuyten Duyvil) as well as the chapbooks Ode to the Unexpected from novelist Peter Cameron’s Shrinking Violet Press, The Jones of It and Catch & Release, recent finalists for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Her poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies including Barrow Street, The Southampton Review, The Best American Poetry, Typishly & Melville House’s Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton.