NEAR THE COLD HOUSE GOING
For William Bronk
Spit of land,
rain, wind, clouds:
and the heavy
bicycles we rode for twelve days
into the
Atlantic. Distance, time,
bright vessels
made from an obliquity of language,
the cluttered
space we prowled.
On the bridge
within the air above the ice in flame.
It’s time’s
cut, you see, locked against intrusive light.
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This is a start of something. It needs an expanded form, an exploratory gist.