Advanced Fantasies of the Cross-Bronx Expressway, and: Visionary Labors of the Astoria Pool
- Advanced Fantasies of the Cross-Bronx Expressway, and: Visionary Labors of the Astoria Pool
ADVANCED FANTASIES OF THE CROSS-BRONX EXPRESSWAY
Here the Crotona Pool should be, here stillIt is. We don’t erase ourselves. We don’tPly our bodies with asphalt and barriers.Our walls are pinned with some of whatExists, but one cannot notice every tulip,All the flora and fauna given a nameHaven’t been given one by us. The peopleList as traffic. Thus traffic grows. It roarsWhen locked in place, then when it moves.It piles around us, above us, like papersWe haven’t attended to. We have too manySolutions. Nights our offices pool withUs. We overflow ourselves, and cannotSee from where we are about to go. [End Page 112]
VISIONARY LABORS OF THE ASTORIA POOL
He only likes to build it. He doesn’t liveWhere he swims, where the city has pieces,He means to mend them, to tear the cityPieces where it can be mended. HereAt my desk, I engage in a crisis among us.What I’m doing is with my development.What I’m doing these days is cutting outThe part I’ve done before. Done it for.Our stability isn’t in question if it’sAlways in question. We can figure it outFrom swimming, that we have to keepMoving. Not just to float, but becauseWe can’t help ourselves. It works like this:I build what I see, and you try to stop me. [End Page 113]
Samuel Amadon is the author of Like a Sea and The Hartford Book. He teaches in the mfa program at the University of South Carolina and edits the journal Oversound with Liz Countryman.
