Showing posts with label Henry Hudson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry Hudson. Show all posts

Jan 15, 2009

Unsettlement













There's an airplane in the Hudson right now. These passenger's accounts are pretty frightening.

Evening Update: The news reports now are even more difficult to digest. The plane is teathered at the battery and not a soul was harmed (barring a few cases of hypothermia), but any information about machines flying near the island is deeply unwelcome.

Jan 4, 2009

Verses

I feel a bit criminal excluding most of the poem; but here are the last four lines, because they are the finest—

excerpt from Song (1951)
Frank O'hara

I suppose I'll walk back West.
But for now I'm gone forever!
the city's hung with flashlights!
the Ferry's unbuttoning its vest!