Entry 185 — “Poem, with a Companion”

.          Poem, with a Companion

.          A pale orange sail with some red in it
.          was receding into a young June sun’s
.          blue opinion of the locale.
.          Oblivious to it,
.          Poem and a woman
.          asked out of
.          a long-lost map Poem had just
.          found in his notebook
.          for a course in calculus he’d taken
.          in junior college thirty years previously
.          walked slowly through
.          the small quarrels the ocean was having
.          with the shore.
.          Mid-Manhattan traffic sounds,
.          from some other poem–
.          sharp, yellow,
.          upside-down–
.          whittled a possible destination
.          into the dimming of his hopes.

I don’t really know what to make of this, but it seems interesting enough to take care of this entry with.

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