Random Impressions from the Train
(New York City, Washington D.C., Chicago, Lawrence) For Gloria Price, Anita Herzfeld, and Dorothy Mosby The Bronx is: so long! Penn Station: Hi there! Trenton is, come on! Trees are ladies and children and men In salt and pepper of green, red, yellow and gold At school, at work, at church, at play “And you my soul?” As Whitman said The City Of Fraternal Love and Baltimore smile at us Echoes of “Desiderata” Nature and Applied Science Tangle and struggle and fight Nature won’t give in to men’s abuse Will you my soul? Massachusetts smiles from afar Pregnant with poetry, learning, Language, culture and art, You my soul? Rivers and lakes trees and sun and sky; some whisper, some murmur, and some even shout: “We won’t give up, noooo, never We’re here to stay, for keeps” And you my soul? Ware houses what do you store? Power houses what’s power any way? Trees, churches, streams, Church yard, trees, bridges, Freeways, highways, by ways, Trees, factories, farmlands, chimneys, Yellow, grey, w...