Poems from Living Here over 40 years
CROSS BRONX SUNDAY MORNING
SE HABLE ESPANOL
DUG OUT OF ROCK
FLANKED BY TEN STORY BUILDINGS
BRICKS BRICKS BRICKS
AND CHAINLINK FENCES
DEEGAN AND AMSTERDAM
ON AND OFF RAPIDO
THE CORNER TIENDA
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
GW BRIDGE
POST 9-11
TRUCKS ONLY UPPER LEVEL
UNDERGROUND OVER STEEL
IN THE WALL NICHE ALTARS; VOTIVES, VIRGIN MARYS, AND DUSTY PLASTIC FLOWERS
WHERE SOMEONE DIED, WHERE SOMEONE DIED
AND WIRE NETS HOLD BACK THE ROCKS.
THE ROCKS WERE HERE FIRST
WATERTOWERS, STANDPIPES AND CHIMNEYS,
BRICK BRICK BRICK
FLAGS AND DISHES AND CLOTHESLINES.
AND THEN UP AND OVER THE GEORGE WASHINGTON AND LOOKING BACK TO MANHATTAN WHERE
THE TOWERS WERE BEFORE
STILL SMOKING
Cross Bronx Sunday Morning
2001