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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MANHATTAN NEW YEAR, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER
First Line: The whistles blow and through the city street
Last Line: The new year enters at a cottage door.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Night Clubs; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple
First Line: The whistles blow and through the city street
Last Line: The new year enters at a cottage door.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Night Clubs; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple
The whistles blow and through the city street
The motor pack in deep, full-throated cry
Hunts down an unreturning year.
The View Halloo in savage, tom-tom beat
Drifts from the night club and the sigh
And moan
Of saxophone
Assault my ear.
In locked embrace the dancers sway, and croon
A torchsong to the air of Auld Lang Syne
And, thumb to nose, in wine as flat
As life, salute the New Year's honeymoon.
Oh, strange oblation to a newborn shrine!
Dry gin,
Synthetic grin
And a paper hat!
Across the years I meet your answering look
And all the pagan din is strangely still.
The music's blatant, negroid score
Dreams to the murmur of an ice-bound brook
The close room mists into a moon-white hill
Through firelight's glow
On drifted snow
The New Year enters at a cottage door.
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