Patricia Hanahoe-Dosch: Poetry in Abalone Moon

Hydroelectric Irony

There is a waterfall inside the city

of Paterson, NJ, and it is

defiantly beautiful, like a falcon

hooded and caged in a room

of crumbling plaster walls

and office furniture. The rush of water

over rocks calls, the way

a raptor, released, throws its head

into the air, streaming its feathers,

and traces dangling from its talons,

flowing molecules of oxygen,

feather and leather currents,

but the traffic as we wind around

the Passaic river

is all we hear anymore.

In an old photograph

a rainbow appears across rocks

and turbulent waters

but now the spindrift is gone

the city is all

black and white, or sometimes sepia,

unless you look carefully,

from route 80, toward

Garrett Mountain where

spring and summer foliage

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