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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAIN STREET IN A FOG, by ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE
First Line: The asphalt street gleams like a river black
Last Line: Drapes car and taxi waiting in long lines.
Subject(s): Fog; Towns; Haze
First Line: The asphalt street gleams like a river black
Last Line: Drapes car and taxi waiting in long lines.
Subject(s): Fog; Towns; Haze
The asphalt street gleams like a river black
With virgin snow piled softly to its edge
While cement curbing glitters as the sedge
When white with frost. A passing peddler's pack
Sags, soggy wet, across his bony back
As he slinks past the corner cop. The ledge
Of roof and window's dripping with the dredge
Of cloud and chimney -- white lights leave a track
Of rippling pallor and the shop-fronts show
Their brilliant wares as Beauty through a veil
Lures by concealment. The electric signs,
Deep orange, waver ghost-like through the glow
Of city's night while opalescence pale
Drapes car and taxi waiting in long lines.
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