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I had just turned merely pale,
billow queasy.
Land balance
lay in Manhattan’s
grid of everywhere peopled
squares and blocks and heights
the human multi-Broadway
of uptown downtown
Bowery to Yonkers
Village to Central Park
Big Apple city health
Yes Philadelphia
Yes to the Lenape
Yes to Penn and Franklin
Yes to Independence’s cracked bell
Yes to Rittenhouse Square
Yes to Chesnutt Street’s ivied Penn
Yes to Market Street
Yes to the Inquirer
Yes to the Schuylkill, river and expressway
Yes to 30th Street Train Station
Yes to the Art Museum – Duchamp and Rocky
Yes to the Main Line, Welsh Bryn Mawr, Italian Paoli
Yes to Marian Anderson’s contralto
Yes to the pages of David Bradley and Lorene Cary
Yes to W. Wilson Goode’s mayorship
Yes to each middle-Philadelphia Row House
Yes
also
to
the
Germantown
food
sign
I
saw
in 1972
Anglo-Saxon Pizzas (since 1957)
Chicago L
Hog winter Chicago
South Halsted freeze-up
Wind-chill
Lake Michigan
February
Broken L train
high on CTA track-curve
yet
sub-zero’d
into