"Ghosts of the Arcade"

        for John Burroughs

sitting under clock

in middle of bridge

in middle of mercantile center

Eisenmann & Smith built in 1890

I look in one direction

to bookstore Hart Crane hauntd

& in other to cigar counter

up there was the Asphodel

where Jim Lowell sold me

my first Jargon imprint

publishd by Jonathan Williams

& where d.a. levy brought

mimeograph manifestos

one day I too will be a ghost

waiting for someone

to sit under this clock

& say words written here