Summer 2000

 

William Heyen

WALDEN

 

Henry Thoreau in a helicopter passes over

Yankee Stadium where eighty-year-old ex-
President Jack Kennedy tosses out the first ball,
a world teeming with plants hosting insects
in whose intestines our Milky Way is one of countless
clusters in the eye of Time.... "Moose, Indian,"
Henry mutters. The copter reverses its blades

& retrogresses to the point of disappearance....

 

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