Beggar's Dream

Beggar’s Dream

Disc so pale and flat in gray winter          

sky—sun gone moon

in peaceful haze

of day-night-day, floating

shyly to view receding

behind drifting flakes—

a beggar’s dream

in wan tumbling light,

scuffed dime now glimpsed

now gone—glad

fleeting ghost 

of unearned, unhoped-for keeping.