Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Can't beat the view



View From An Arlington Balcony

A rumpled horizon sets to work
as the sun goes down, dividing my view

Shouldering the rectangle balanced 
lightly on the Chesapeake, a slice
of seaboard peeled back on fretting skies

Reagan International resonating
under finger plucked flight paths tuned taut

Head down in a headlong rush, elbow
on this leg cradling all those marbled targets
flowing relieved into the bay
Safe harbor of the sea

Capital dome
          dunce hat
          radiating monkey shines
         
Washington Monument
mending bolted
in a halo brace

Macallen
          with ice
          beading on the rail

line up perfectly with a slight shift
to the right, red lights of low flying
helicopters worrying
all bejesus out of a blameless Potomac.




         
















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