This poem is taken from Poetry Nation 1 Number 1, 1973.
Two Poems
Two Poems
WINTER VISION
Pushing your way through
the city's winter,
trudging above the subway's
hardened arteries,
breasting stymied ranks
of traffic, you might catch
a quick, zeroing glimpse
of how things will stand
at the ultimate freeze:
dogs and their leash-bearers
halted in mid-procession,
feathers of steam
poking iced from their lips;
a newspaper page
...
WINTER VISION
Pushing your way through
the city's winter,
trudging above the subway's
hardened arteries,
breasting stymied ranks
of traffic, you might catch
a quick, zeroing glimpse
of how things will stand
at the ultimate freeze:
dogs and their leash-bearers
halted in mid-procession,
feathers of steam
poking iced from their lips;
a newspaper page
...
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