This Poem was Submitted By: Elaine Anne Westheimer On Date: 2001-07-21 18:11:49 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Along the Hudson

Pearly cataract  sky hovers over  listless creases of khaki water.   The damp shore is rusted autumn under stripped spindly branches. Opaque melancholy  boards the train and journeys with me the length of the river.  No wonder headless horseman galloped  near; dreary scene  evokes dark fantasy. I envision childhood's home but gargoyles   mock my loss of youth and beat my spirit.  Who clings to me in  a blind embrace of  wrinkled fragility?  Who is this woman? City looms, gone  is the river; augury  replaced for now by anticipation. I still yearn for  memory's mother, but the precious old lady is sweet.

Copyright © July 2001 Elaine Anne Westheimer


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