From patrick.dowling@octel.com  Mon Jan 20 23:12:10 1997 
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 21:53:39 -0800




                         "Venice: Summer, 1965"
     
          High on the rooftop counting stars: one by one by one I see 
          them sink into the sea, the sweet, sibilant sea.  I want to 
          dance among these points of light tonight-- 
          dance in the lonely, starstruck sea...
     
          Listen: the amazing duet of ocean and shore...it fills my heart 
          to bursting, this chorus of wind in the palm trees of Venice.
     
          Tonight I will walk...alone, but not alone...for the music 
          of the universe sings in my soul and my vision is clear, 
          my vision is near....
     
                                             --pat dowling (1997)