And yet all this comes down when the job's done Showing off walls of sure and solid stone. —Seamus Heaney, Scaffolding (as reported in the MTA's Poetry in Motion series) Thoughts from one morning, walking back from Hell's Kitchen to my own little corner of the world, passing St. Patrick's Cathedral, and deciding to stop inside, because I am bleary from sleeping on a couch, a bit of hangover from sadness, and just one glass of wine putting me to sleep:
even people can be places
even people can be places
even people can be places
And yet all this comes down when the job's done Showing off walls of sure and solid stone. —Seamus Heaney, Scaffolding (as reported in the MTA's Poetry in Motion series) Thoughts from one morning, walking back from Hell's Kitchen to my own little corner of the world, passing St. Patrick's Cathedral, and deciding to stop inside, because I am bleary from sleeping on a couch, a bit of hangover from sadness, and just one glass of wine putting me to sleep: