Little White Truck

[MoonyLuna]

Because the white truck traveling the span of the Williamsburg Bridge
could be the white fastener traveling the top of a zip-lock bag,
the East River and tugs might be contained without spilling
in today's October light, along with this new spray of trees and
picnic tables which appeared when the industrial tide of Williamsburg
went out. If these could be contained, then likewise the two cyclists,
now dismounted and steadying their bikes as they kiss, and surely
it could hold the music they heard last night eddying again
around their thoughts, and the memory of their first idea of the
future, loosed when he held her in a doorway lit by cobwebs of spring rain.


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Jessica Greenbaum

[MoonyLuna]

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Jessica Greenbaum


Jessica Greenbaum is a poet living in Brooklyn. Her first book, Inventing Difficulty, received the Silverfish Review Press' Gerald Cable Prize in 2000. New poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, the New Yorker, Harvard Review, Partisan Review, Ploughshares and Cincinnati Review. She is the poetry editor for the annual upstreet.