Saturday, October 10, 2026

VANISHING LINES

Who needs the lampposts
this late hour
of the year?—when

bright fire-
full ranks of condemned 
sugar maples tend

to illuminate, 
chiefly by means
of satire,

the uninspired 
deadends of our own
private boulevards: this 

compulsory drive 
we have to try 
to live forever.