Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Rivers (an observation inspired by James Schuyler's February.)


People move like water
in a river. At the rail station
crowds ebb and flow.
The tides, they come and go.

Like large rocks standing against
the relentless current are benches.
Upon which cling various wretches
like moss or algae to the rocks.

There, on the benches, sit
people like frogs on those rocks.
They croak to themselves and
to others over the rushing
of the river around them.

At the thin edge of the bench
is a gathering, milling, swirling
eddy of people that look as if
they are trapped there as
the river rushes past. They
eventually find their impetus
and onward, down river they
rush.

The mass of different heads
and hats bobbing like leaves
move with a rushing into
their doors and drains as they
head aboard their trains.



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