October 31: Cloud Allusions I Recall

“Bright Star,” a musical collaboration

Between Steve Martin and Edie Brickell,

Whose title comes from Keats, whose exhortation

Tells paramours in patience they should dwell,

Competes with Randall Thompson for delight,

Whose setting of “Choose Something Like a Star”

By Robert Frost, with Keats’s Eremite,

One seen up close and one seen from afar.

But who’s to say two works that might allude

With learned respect to one immortal piece

That by chronology one might preclude

The other’s fame, its prominence de...