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Gowanus

Nov 12, 2024Gerald WagonerWinter 2024, Winter 2024 PoetryGerald Wagoner, Poetry, Winter 2024

by Gerald Wagoner Brooklyn’s skyline is a dank, indistinct  brume with snow soon. Another empty rusted warehouse opposite this side of the canal, useful last month, awaits demolition. Low old buildings on both sides of The Gowanus are being leveled. More glass high-rises will go up. Young people, couples with bright eyes will move in.

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A Selection from “A Month of Someday”

Mar 14, 2023Gerald WagonerSummer 2021, Summer 2021 PoetryGerald Wagoner, Poetry

by Gerald Wagoner When New York City initiated shelter-in-place, mid-March of 2020, to maintain my physical and mental health I continued my nightly walks. I would leave my Carroll Gardens home around 10 pm and walk to Brooklyn Heights, or to Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, or up to Prospect Park. The only other

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Advice From a Dead Poet

Mar 5, 2023Gerald WagonerWinter 2023, Winter 2023 PoetryGerald Wagoner, Poetry

by Gerald Wagoner Be precise, elegant, describe forces and vectors.Learn the arcane alchemy of memory as catalystto imagination. The physics of the kinetic requireyou announce that windows are ablaze at sunset. Learn the arcane alchemy of memory as catalystto mountain vistas. The sky teaches the listenerto proclaim the windows at sunset ablaze, molten.The brazen glass

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