(Partha Narasimhan/Unsplash)

Brooklyn-bound bridge flight:

copper statue’s slanting arm,

cranes of gray Bayonne

John Linstrom is series editor of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Library for Cornell University Press. His poems and nonfiction have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Atlanta Review, the New Criterion, the Antioch Review, and elsewhere.

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