The Canal Contemplations
1.
The social worker is sent to a canal to find and capture the lost children:
This old city psyche is a thunderous voyage,
In the stillness of the disquietening dawn and
at a distance, approaching emergency sirens
light up the clovers along drains and gutters.
What will become of us once they arrive?
Will the bridges to other events collapse?
Yet, even here -- there are great advances,
in the heart-breaking parentless love stories
of children who glide the canals like sails. |