archives for Friday 15 February 2008
friday refrains · george oppen
Friday 15 February 2008 | I like a cookie
TIME OF THE MISSILE
I remember a square of New York’s Hudson River glinting
between warehouses.
Difficult to approach the water below the pier
Swirling, covered with oil the ship at the pier
A steel wall: tons in the water,
Width.
The hand for holding,
Legs for walking,
The eye sees! It floods in on us from here to Jersey tangled
in the grey bright […]
