There’s an island in the Hudson
River, close to Manhattan
closer to Brooklyn — former Coast
Guard station, landfill, photographer’s
disneyland — sold by the U.S. government
to the city of New York for $1.
Strands of Chestnut trees thrive
alongside Oaks, ancient East Coast
monikers. For decades, no one has
seen the island; it wasn’t lost
just bypassed, not in use.
Les Hikikomori
I’ve been reading about Vermeer
especially the painting of a girl
sleeping. What are we to make
of the man looking over her
shoulder, the one we do not
see (he’s been painted over)?
It occurs to me he could
be Vermeer, a little too
close to this one, had to
shut himself in.
