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In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay	A
A catbird singing never the same phrase twice	B
Here under the pines a little off the road	C
In the Chief of Police	D
And Mrs W killed themselves together	E
Sitting in a roadster Ancient unshaken pilings	F
And underwater chunks of still mortared brick	G
In shapes like bits of puzzle strew the bottom	H
Where the landing was for Price's Hotel and Theater	E
And here's where boats blew two blasts for the keeper	E
To shunt the iron swing bridge He leaned on the gears	I
Like a skipper in the hut that housed the works	J
And the bridge moaned and turned on its middle pier	K
To let them through In the middle of the summer	E
Two or three cars might wait for the iron trusswork	G
Winching aside with maybe a child to notice	L
A name on the stern in black and gold on white	M
Sandpiper Patsy Ann Do Not Disturb	N
The Idler If a boat was running whiskey	G
The bridge clanged shut behind it as it passed	O
And opened up again for the Coast Guard cutter	E
Slowly as a sundial and always jammed halfway	A
The roadbed whole but opened like a switch	P
The river pulling and coursing between the piers	I
Never the same phrase twice the catbird filling	G
The humid August evening near the inlet	Q
With borrowed music that he melds and changes	R
Dragonflies and sandflies frogs in the rushes two bodies	S
Not moving in the open car among the pines	T
A sliver of story The tenor at Price's Hotel	U
In clown costume unfurls the sorrow gathered	V
In ruffles at his throat and cuffs high quavers	W
That hold like splashes of light on the dark water	E
The aria's closing phrases changed and fading	G
And after a gap of quiet cheers and applause	X
Audible in the houses across the river	E
Some in the audience weeping as if they had melted	Y
Inside the music Never the same In Berlin	Z
The daughter of an English lord in love	A2
With Adolf Hitler whom she has met She is taking	G
Possession of the apartment of a couple	B2
Elderly well off Jews They survive the war	C2
To settle here in the Bay the old lady	G
Teaches piano but the whole world swivels	D2
And gapes at their feet as the girl and a high up Nazi	G
Examine the furniture the glass the pictures	W
The elegant story that was theirs and now	E2
Is part of hers A few months later the English	F2
Enter the war and she shoots herself in a park	G
An addled upper class girl her life that passes	R
Into the lives of others or into a place	G2
The taking of lives the Chief and Mrs W	H2
Took theirs to stay together as local ghosts	I2
Last flurries of kisses the revolver's barrel	B2
Shivers of a story that a child might hear	J2
And half remember voices in the rushes	R
A singing in the willows From across the river	E
Faint quavers of music the same phrase twice and again	K2
Ranging and building Over the high new bridge	L2
The flashing of traffic homeward from the racetrack	G
With one boat chugging under the arches outward	V
Unnoticed through Pleasure Bay to the open sea	G
Here's where the people stood to watch the theater	E
Burn on the water All that night the fireboats	G
Kept playing their spouts of water into the blaze	G
In the morning smoking pilasters and beams	G
Black smell of char for weeks the ruin already	G
Soaking back into the river After you die	M2
You hover near the ceiling above your body	G
And watch the mourners awhile A few days more	C2
You float above the heads of the ones you knew	H2
And watch them through a twilight As it grows darker	E
You wander off and find your way to the river	E
And wade across On the other side night air	N2
Willows the smell of the river and a mass	G
Of sleeping bodies all along the bank	G
A kind of singing from among the rushes	G
Calling you further forward in the dark	G
You lie down and embrace one body the limbs	G
Heavy with sleep reach eagerly up around you	H2
And you make love until your soul brims up	O2
And burns free out of you and shifts and spills	G
Down over into that other body and you	H2
Forget the life you had and begin again	K2
On the same crossing maybe as a child who passes	G
Through the same place But never the same way twice	G
Here in the daylight the catbird in the willows	G
The new caf eacute with a terrace and a landing	G
Frogs in the cattails where the swing bridge was	G
Here's where you might have slipped across the water	E
When you were only a presence at Pleasure Bay	A

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