posing him as the Spring because he loved the Spring / himself as Winter / as mild a winter as he hoped for each year / misguided as he was / Winter indoors waiting for Spring to shoot it merry blossom / blossom comes and Winter looks on Spring and loves / Summer Autumn Winter yet / but ol Fishface knew rightly he’d never see these Angelino seasons come cept in indefinite imagination / what? / boy’s future? / asked h’self paternally / boy simply did not seem to grow older / aye yon Angelino fram tha Havan in a ansar ta a prayer / preposterous / what Heaven is that? / asshole / too many paintings darling / real angel eh / instantly sat up in bed and looked across the room / boy sleeping / it’s me / slowly easing back troubled ta tha pillow / old man slipped back ta sleep / self-portraiting / matter-o-fact dream / manner a work / nothin strange / face in tha mirrer / yes / tis a mirrar / painted accordin ta what he see