"agrippa" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gibson Walter)

Like the first time you put your mouth
on a woman.


III.

"Ice Gorge at Wheeling
1917"

Iron bridge in the distance,
Beyond it a city.
Hotels where pimps went about their business
on the sidewalks of a lost world.
But the foreground is in focus,
this corner of carpenter's Gothic,
these backyards running down to the freeze.

"Steamboat on Ohio River",
its smoke foul and dark,
its year unknown,
beyond it the far bank
overgrown with factories.

"Our Wytheville