By Yona Aniwodi
October 21, 2024 19:07gmt-4
East river to north, starboard it rides
Poughkeepsie now afire in the sunrise
Look! Nukes! Now see the Indian point
Saugerties then Selkirk, Woodstock highs
Led from their stalls, large mule team hauls
Beyond Albany to that sea above Hudson falls
Clinton Dewitt’s big ditch, ’twas so coined
Flying V geese calls over Rockefeller Balls
Haute culture and wine, new western rat line
Buffalo chase awaits, new fortunes to mine
Way’s clear, settlers here, markets to anoint
Found such fury, upon Lake so Erie, snow blind
Nature to respect, constant lake effect, what deluge
Winds ripping, waters whipping, the cheeks rouge
To Saint Clair’s Michigan air, lands nearly joined
Helm in grip for the roundtrip, an iced canal luge
for shelley O, sis