For the Century's End by John M. Haines

Author:John M. Haines
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2001-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

It would have to be something dark,

glazed as in a painting. A corridor

leading back to a forgotten neighborhood

where a ball is bounced from street

to street, and we hear from a far corner

the vendor’s cry in a city light.

It would have to be dusk, long after

sunlight has failed. A shrouded figure

at the prow of a ship, staring

and pointing—as if one might see

into that new land still unventured,

and beyond it, coal dust and gaslight,

vapors of an impenetrable distance.

Too many heroes, perhaps: a MacArthur

striding the Philippine shallows; a sports

celebrity smeared with a period color.

A voice in the air: a Roman orator

declaiming to an absentee Forum

the mood of their failing republic.

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