Vancouver Lights | Text of the Poem
About me the night moonless wimples the
mountains
wraps ocean land air and mounting
sucks at the stars The city throbbing below
webs the sable peninsula The golden
strands overleap the seajet by bridge and buoy
vault the shears of the inlet climb the woods
toward me falter and halt Across to the firefly
haze of a ship on the gulfs erased horizon
roll the lambent spokes of a lighthouse
Through the feckless years we have come to the
time
when to look on this quilt of lamps is a troubling
delight
Welling from Europe's bog through Africa's
flowing
and Asia...
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