This Poem/That Book
Looking Straight Up
Commentary Quotes: Produce An Art

By Martin Jack Rosenblum

 


There are five senses and they may be gone.
But one grabs prominence like a De luxe version of what's down town.
Is the stone trimming of the tops of buildings all that absurd?
Yes, at morning's first light as a shopper's thin day break monument
— looking up straight
At the ground as the other four remain the dawn's wrappings.
Rectangular as the title is hermetic circle we go to the one sense
For page 22 in the first edition; and not to town until, no, but then.

 


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