5:30 and the winter dark is bleak between damp haloed lamps along the Avenue that's housed both Hamilton and nuns, but now is flanked on either side by soot seamed Gothic battlements transposed and flat-faced modern factories where the production line of classrooms will manufacture the raw ore of immigrants to engineers. While wind-plucked flagpole lines play brass to scurries of night-student feet, I teach the ambiguities of language's precision to calculation's latest clique, who queasy at the equivocal set sail on their geodesy, fixed point to point as though between these lamps where I amongst the other gargoyles smirk into the dusk. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEIGHBORS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ETUDE REALISTE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE BEETHOVEN'S SEVENTH SYMPHONY by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER by SABINE BARING-GOULD A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 9 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |