“Blizzard at Montauk,” from my 2008 collection, Father of Water. Submitted in 2018 from Charles Pierre.
Central Park. Blizzard of 1969. Paul Goldfinger. Click image to enlarge.
Blizzard at Montauk
By Charles Pierre
An ocean of snow
flows over ruins
of the three sweet seasons.
Amid miles of white
a stray dog squints
for signs of living land,
but the spotted air
swirls around his eyes
in unearthly circles,
the frozen flakes
sticking to his lashes,
his vision tranced
by a vast pathlessness.
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD “Snowstorm” from the film Snow Falling on Cedars.
“A vast pathlessness” would make a great title to a novel.
Photograph taken from the roof of Mt Sinai Hospital on Fifth Avenue and 100th Street. Paul Goldfinger photo.
Another fine poem by Charles Pierre: “snow / flows” over “pathlessness”–indeed!