Blue Magpie12 Mar 2006

Dear Dovina,
I thought I had implied the causes of Aggapus's problems, with 'brought forth a dream' and 'dallied inthoughts quite unreal' but here is another stanza

he learned about poetry, painting and joy,
and even today he still looks like a boy.

He wandered, unknowing, far out of the world;
as his dreamy illusions of wonder unfurled
he lived like a phantom of ardent belief
too lost in the beauty to see his own grief.