Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Stroll along the river front April 27, 2014

 

 

I stroll the promenade of the Jersey City waterfront down in the haunted valley of some business building and residential towers I could never afford

 a place which has no memories of her to remind me of what I might have felt

 strolling along the same river farther north and yet I still feel haunted the way I might strolling through a graveyard

these monolithic buildings instead of gravestones, her imprint on me if not on the landscape

 her journey she details and essay, an echo of other things she has seen, other places she has been, none of which has anything to do with me

 good or bad; right or wrong

 her struggle sitting inside me like poorly ingested meal I can either regurgitate nor get digested, sitting heavy inside m, an added weight I must continue to carry wherever I walk


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