January 2011
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Homage to Mary Hamilton
“Homage to Mary Hamilton”
by Tom Sleigh
from The New Yorker (here)
I’m driving past discarded tires,
the all-night car wash dreams
near Green-wood Cemetery where
the otherworld of Queens
puts out trash—trash of murder, Inc.,
trash of heartbeat
in recycled newspapers where
Romeo and Juliet meet.
So much thorny underbrush,
so much ice overgrowing
my...