This Dissolving City
The city is dissolving today.
Dissolving city.
What happened to New Jersey? It’s gone.
The once (and future?) view of New Jersey from Riverside Park.
New Jerseyites, are you out there? Did the Rapture come and take you away, leaving behind this dissolving city.
City of dissolution dissolves.
The Hudson River, too, is gone.
Once, a river ran through it.
Buildings and water towers are disappearing.
Water towers and buildings fade away.
People appear out of the void.
Where do you come from?
Then slip back into nothingness.
Where are you going?
No birds sing, no squirrel stirs.
Bare branches with squirrel drey.
Very strange. Very strange, indeed.
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December 10, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Haunting photos Melissa – and a lovely take on what many would complain about.
December 10, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Thank you, Barbara. It’s been a strangely beautiful day.
December 12, 2012 at 10:36 am
Ah, the poetry of a dissolving city…Loved it!