Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FOG, by JACK GREENBERG


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THE FOG, by                    
First Line: The fog is thick tonight
Last Line: For prayer and rest ...
Subject(s): Fog; Love; Weather; Haze


The fog is thick tonight
and I thrill as I feel its damp caress
upon my cheek
as I wander on and on—
seeking the tall cathedral.
There is no hand so soothing
as the hand of fog
London fog ...

The fog is thick tonight
and before me
looms a great white monster
with shadowed lines of fancy,
that weave an arabesque design.
The air is chill and damp
or does my frail human self
tremble because I fear—
fear that cold white monster
whose writhing body
(I know it has a writhing body
though I cannot see)
stretches back into the night.
I fear
or else I would not tremble
as I wander on and on.

The fog is thick tonight
and hangs low in the valley
like a velvet cloak of death—
But lightly I move through it
with joyous heart of youth.
My only love is darkness.

But this is not London
it is Pittsburgh
and the white cathedral is St. Paul—
the valley is the Monongahela.
I am not a London cockney
but a vagabond of the streets
seeking the tall cathedral
for prayer and rest ...





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