SEA BREEZE Part One
for Tamas in Brooklyn
1.
Luxurious antidotes,
phasellus ille,
the sea
you
mean to float on is
mean to float on is
coterminous
with her affections
(Coney Island, minuit)
midnight, I see it already, the car
she’s driving
down
Ocean,
Ocean,
the stately Jewish houses,
then shining
boardwalk full of maybes
and far away the curl of moonlight
on the tenth-night wave
cresting way out there
the way they do,
where
sharks calve and play,
sharks calve and play,
happy hunting, lover,
the
stick-shift
stick-shift
never felt so good, staggered green lights,
a car knows how to go,
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