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George Oppen - Vulcan

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The householder issuing to the street <br />Is adrift a moment in that ice stiff <br />Exterior. ‘Peninsula <br />Low lying in the bay <br />And wooded—’ Native now <br />Are the welder and the welder’s arc <br />In the subway’s iron circuits: <br />We have not escaped each other, <br />Not in the forest, not here. The crippled girl hobbles <br />Painfully in the new depths <br />Of the subway, and painfully <br />We shift our eyes. The bare rails <br />And black walls contain <br />Labor before her birth, her twisted <br />Precarious birth and the men <br />Laborious, burly—She sits <br />Quiet, her eyes still. Slowly, <br />Deliberately she sees <br />An anchor’s blunt fluke sink <br />Thru coins and coin machines, <br />The ancient iron and the voltage <br />In the iron beneath us in the child’s deep <br />Harbors into harbor sand.<br /><br />George Oppen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/vulcan/

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