BETWEEN TWO RIVERS
Manhattan, NYC, 1996
East River: | lovers sleep
concrete smokestacks rosy | under the oaks, waiting
with morning light | for 'As You Like It'
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old man pulls | produce stand:
gleaming striped bass from | peppers, plums, lemons,
the murky river | two solemn kids
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newspaper | stone-faced Korean
and low-fat latte - the shop | grocer gives the baby
fills with briefcases | a strawberry
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the hairy man | hand in hand
harangues Park Avenue - | with Mom in Time Square,
listen, listen! | he peeks at hookers
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Central Park: | seminar on
languid ducks ripple | Yeats, jazz, and girls:
the skyscrapers | Village bar
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students kiss | whacking golf balls
on the grass between | into the Hudson -
unopened textbooks | 'the crowd goes wild'
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still on page one... | through the Narrows,
girls in spring dresses | three tall masts
pass his bench | and the Atlantic
(as seen in MIRRORS 1996, volume number VIII)
Copyright © 1996 James T. Mullins
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