Orion Magazine

East River Ferry, August 26

E RETURN HOME as sailors might, watching the approach of our homeland: a pair of water towers; the red brick spire of the Catholic church at the corner of Milton and Manhattan; the old factory on which someone has spray-painted only the word smells. I often tell my students about a concept Ezra Pound described as , the shoreline not as it might appear on a map, an aerial How does the world stretch to hold both?

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