Sub Rosa #1

On every weekday I arrived
at the reading room on 5th Avenue,
12:45 pm sharp

The exactitude will do, stated
the lost Brotherhood of Amman,
their archaic view still consisting of
78! ways to arrange the life

All this took place in the Medieval times,
that much I learnt from the books;
one way was the Lovers

Alienated by the plurality of the present,
foretelling has gone, discarded
To paraphrase: the waiting of afternoon