From Atlas
out in the open air
for a ribbon
of high. With obvious
pride a few new
saplings
from the past a dead hand the whole
as a public domain an esplanade
sunk
to the green strip a bikeway
and a promenade a wall from the street from the clamor
than the current
to put a parkway through
to the shore
tim
bers rot-
ting tall
jagged
of landfill the taboo
about the current shaping
and the highway
was crumbling and the highway
would be underground
we thought New Yorkers would never accept
65,000 cars between them
and the waterfront
for a ribbon
of high. With obvious
pride a few new
saplings
from the past a dead hand the whole
as a public domain an esplanade
sunk
to the green strip a bikeway
and a promenade a wall from the street from the clamor
than the current
to put a parkway through
to the shore
tim
bers rot-
ting tall
jagged
of landfill the taboo
about the current shaping
and the highway
was crumbling and the highway
would be underground
we thought New Yorkers would never accept
65,000 cars between them
and the waterfront
From Atlas
hardly a ripple of surprise
see enough of what is happening
of w'heat
white-painted
houses turned black
i hough not
that pollution is to blame
w' eeds grown
to the surface the empty
sands
but look now—high
summer
after the mayfly must w' ork
the pickerel vanish~ d
for coarse fish
to clear snow or walleye
whi | e enriching
in the quality of its fish
since Erie was ~dying to begin with
have grown
number of nymphs per meter
in western end, dollar value
in millions, cells per milliliter,
sold per year in Ohio in thousands
of tons, consumption in US in millions
of pounds, content of Erie water
in milligrams per
the turtle-decked
water blooms
see enough of what is happening
of w'heat
white-painted
houses turned black
i hough not
that pollution is to blame
w' eeds grown
to the surface the empty
sands
but look now—high
summer
after the mayfly must w' ork
the pickerel vanish~ d
for coarse fish
to clear snow or walleye
whi | e enriching
in the quality of its fish
since Erie was ~dying to begin with
have grown
number of nymphs per meter
in western end, dollar value
in millions, cells per milliliter,
sold per year in Ohio in thousands
of tons, consumption in US in millions
of pounds, content of Erie water
in milligrams per
the turtle-decked
water blooms
From Atlas
of a city
the building in the wilderness
flush
rundlet
a noise of trumpets
some cloth
a chest of white
of seashell
sewant from whelk
(white
mercenaria
by the thousand
furs
patroon
a raft of letters
(dark
the building in the wilderness
flush
rundlet
a noise of trumpets
some cloth
a chest of white
of seashell
sewant from whelk
(white
mercenaria
by the thousand
furs
patroon
a raft of letters
(dark
From Atlas
to stand on grim
street corners
as an emblem
old frameworks into
beautiful beauty be
down Geary
an urban doom loop
where none had been
a new horse!
in San Francisco!
a dense urban city!
no beat cop walking
popups into
storefronts
tactile paving & in
silos
tenji bumps truncated
domes
throes if not
hackles
street corners
as an emblem
old frameworks into
beautiful beauty be
down Geary
an urban doom loop
where none had been
a new horse!
in San Francisco!
a dense urban city!
no beat cop walking
popups into
storefronts
tactile paving & in
silos
tenji bumps truncated
domes
throes if not
hackles
From Atlas
the ocean in which
the air walls shifting
their weight. What space
between stars like
the sea blowing branches
outside the kitchen
window from a liquor store
across the street
nears
cold
slow
no snow_of color_a leak
in rivers_
the ocean
in which the air swims
between stars
erased
the air walls shifting
their weight. What space
between stars like
the sea blowing branches
outside the kitchen
window from a liquor store
across the street
nears
cold
slow
no snow_of color_a leak
in rivers_
the ocean
in which the air swims
between stars
erased