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Lower East Side: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
Dying day pinches the tot
He grabs my pen and beads
And plays into my hands
His father’s skull glistens
Across his wife’s white arms
The past bursts on a flower
And softly erases its bulb
We hear this going on all around
Night packs the traffic in cotton
And 1st Ave. fruit stands in opal
It is his first day to hurl a toy
But a gray torch rises in the future
Like a pair of scissors
The dark unravels towards
As I return to my newspaper
New York, 1967; from Stones (1969)
3rd Street and Avenue B: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
Avenue C: photo by James Jowers, 1965 (George Eastman House)
1st Avenue: photo by James Jowers, 1966 (George Eastman House)
St. Marks Place: photo by James Jowers, 1968 (George Eastman House)
St. Marks Place: photo by James Jowers, 1968 (George Eastman House)
St. Marks Place: photo by James Jowers, 1968 (George Eastman House)
St. Marks Place: photo by James Jowers, 1968 (George Eastman House)
[Woman in black with necklace and button]: photo by James Jowers, c. 1965 (George Eastman House)
Avenue A: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
Avenue B: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
Tompkins Square Park: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
Tompkins Square Park: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
Tompkins Square Park: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
Tompkins Square Park: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
Tompkins Square Park: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
Bleecker Street: photo by James Jowers, 1968 (George Eastman House)
Bleecker Street: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
East 8th Street: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
St. Marks Place: photo by James Jowers, 1968 (George Eastman House)
Avenue A and East 7th Street: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)
Tompkins Square Park: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House)