AstoriaAstoria examines the transitory physical world of the body and reflects on the seamless quality of the present moment. Surrounded by the rush and noise of trains, highways, and grocery store checkout lines, the narrator of these poems creates an intimate space in which to ponder the ephemeral nature of everyday things and the deeper meanings that might underlie them all. “It is amazing / we're not more amazed,” one poem muses, “The world / is here / and then it is gone.” The poems in Astoria unravel the hidden within the obvious, and speak to our innate questions of longing, purpose, and existence. |
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If There Is Another World | 3 |
From the Train | 19 |
See High Above | 32 |
Copyright | |
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131st Street already beach become blue box A box brown buildings carrying clouds coats dark dead death door dream driving earth empty ENTRANCE everything exact face fall floating front girl give glass goes gone green half hand happiness heart inside invisible it's late later leaves light live look Lorca lost matter mind mirror moon nail never night nine ocean once parking passing past perhaps poems Points present ride river sand scrap of paper secret shadows shoe shoulder simply skull sleep space Spain stand steps stone story Street sunlight Take thanks things thought told train train station traveling trees tulips turn UNIVERSITY Wake walk wallpaper walls warm waves Wearing wind window woman wonder yellow