HUDSON

unwavering noon, self-minus

sun flake on the levels of gold

there are names for these things: rose, brick, plate glass

the annunciation of the sparrow

a gene for anxiety

add hope, fear, greed, desire

no rest but the shade

to which a sun implodes

perhaps on other worlds others walk streets

muse on the weather

psyches built, say, on a double sun of unwavering noon

the balm of such congruence

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thick, white, stick bicyclists painted on the esplanade to Chambers

glinting Jersey cars

helicopter blades under a ledge of cloud

alien first descent past the Trade Towers

drifting in on the flyway to LaGuardia

landscape, local, locale: the man-made made man

trying to open to something like days' unraveling waves

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blue pulled toward fire out toward the skyscraper lights

ancient mausoleums

upheavals from personal terror

dark pier jut into dark water

turquoise, indigo, aqua, lapis; under the molten, under the bruise of night

blood in your lips

as a man I violated the boundary of your mouth

I say this because in the phantasmagoria

I was woman and man

in another story you turn men to stone

though here, out of narrative, poignant at Morton Street against the twilight

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incomprehensible rain under sun

heap-leached haze-gold fused into evening

water's green-grey dense pliance

shadowed face that bends to the shadows to drink and be salvaged

tiered buildings like vast Titanics

yellow truck-trailer's anonymous corpse conjoined to the numberless

a boy swept from the rocks at the Verrazano stanchion

tomb cold draining past Liberty

it need not cohere but how could it not?

without context, for which all are accountable

this is for you of the future: one was here who is gone, into the eigen levels