Joshua Harmon

From Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie

1. Thin ribbons of cloud and half a ruinous moon
2. in an afternoon sky: meager sun gilds asphalt
3. briefly and slides out of sight as the furnace
4. kicks on again: in the tumult of equivalences
5. between split log and smoke, margin and note,
6. my knowledge unbraids itself from freed
7. finitudes: and whatever sense of the possible
8. the afternoon offers vanishes in a lethal twilight
9. broken by a single steeple, an abandoned
10. railway bridge spanning here and there, value
11. and use, the shapes this city assumes