Song of the City at Night by Carol Frost

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend January 5, 2015   Song of the City at Night   Carol Frost

Whatever hid the sun and moon inside a mountain brought people there to found the night where a city swans on river water laving with light each passing wake, mesmerizing a couple on the riverbrink. They seem unaware what is myth or real, taken up, as it were, by a swan’s bill and flown to a milkwater world where it’s possible to drink only the milk and eat pearls. A gunshot, a siren interrupts the quiet. Something is thrown into the river, then the swan is mute. To sing of this the swan would have to out-swan itself, Sibelius out-Sibelius Sibelius.            Copyright © 2015 by Carol Frost. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “I like this loose sonnet of mine, unrhymed but for internals, still with a strong turn in the middle of line ten. It’s part of a series of city poems that I’m working on. This poem started, I suppose, in Astoria, Queens, near Hell’s Gate Bridge. Sibelius is a favorite composer of mine.” —Carol Frost   Carol Frost is the author of Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences (Tupelo Press, 2014). She teaches at Rollins College in Florida and spends summers in upstate New York. Most Recent Book by Frost   Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences (Tupelo Press, 2014) "The City Limits" by A. R. Ammons "Move to the City" by Nathaniel Bellows "Tale of Two Cities" by Mark Jarman Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038