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WHARF

WHARF

they looked like palaces
going up across
the river

which river can tell you
things best and worst
to which
it has
borne witness
the clammy, giddy
moments of rise
equally
nightmare falls

Ah, as you stated fascinated
at a beckoning future
hoping to be part of,
fit in with, mesh
with those gears

not certain yet, however,
this a force for expansion,
empowering creation

or a darker, deeper
thing
thing more instinctual

a trajectory on which,
at the end of the day will
trade
all our everything

nothing beyond the
possibilities of trade

LINE

LINE

you drew a line

said this is
the law, the rule,
the commandment,
the ordinance,
the regulation

suddenly
      no sooner had
you signed off
than the line curved
bent multiplied
wriggled all
over
    the page
my page

not yours;
on your still a single line
plain as day

cutting across the page
East to West
right to
         left

dividing everything
North South
               into two
unequal
hemispheres

you drew a line
for all time