Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 7:33 pm:

 
 
From here I see the city  
              in a frame  
of highways that vault  
above and dredge under  
a patchwork of mirrors  
pressed into sky.  
  
The light rail curves  
around west to south  
onto a parallel line  
        with a coal train.  
White cars skim deftly  
beside open containers  
that rock to an old rhythm.  
  
In a wider grid of movement  
cars and bikes  
      trucks  
    buses  
people  
running alone  
or crossing in bunches  
against the light  
move together in a stream  
          of dynamic  
human energy.  
  
This city an engine  
      of change  
presses time like olives  
to distill a fragrant oil.