6470. THIS IS PREPARED BY.....(from macdougal st. to fifth ave., 1967)

THIS IS PREPARED BY

(from macdougal st. to fifth ave., 1967)

There is a only a jumble now, where

there used to be a 'Jumble Shop'  -  

seventy-five years ago, anyway. We are

awaiting the timing of the play (one of

the last steps in late rehearsals), and the

Eighth Street parade is due here soon;

that painting by a someone I forget, Thomas

Eakins perhaps, or Winslow Homer. At

Eighth and Fifth, there were no balustrades,

only me, solitary, and crossing the busy

evening's street  -  it seems again, over

and over again. To my right is the arch,

at which I peer while waiting, in the 

dimming, graying onset of 

that evening's night.