In the weed of summer comes this green sprout why.

The sun aches and ails and then returns halloo

Upon the horizon amid adult enfantillages.

Its fire fails to pierce the vision that beholds it,

Fails to destroy the antique acceptances,

Except that the grandson sees it as it is,

Peter the voyant, who says “Mother, what is that”—

The object that rises with so much rhetoric,

But not for him. His question is complete.

It is the question of what he is capable.

It is the extreme, the expert aetat. 2.

He will never ride the red horse she describes.

His question is complete because it contains

His utmost statement. It is his own array,

His own pageant and procession and display,

As far as nothingness permits … Hear him.

He does not say, “Mother, my mother, who are you,

The way the drowsy, infant, old men do.