Sun Shower in Peekskill

Sun Shower in Peekskill

Over four brick buildings just short enough
to allow us to see the Hudson Valley light
Cole, Church and Inness could never stop praising
the river downhill invisible only some yards away
we sit in the Peekskill that sent a billion plus bricks
to yesteryear's New York City now in the way
and disassembled to make way.

It falls, a dumb founded rain through the sunlight
trying to sing, like a bird call, its one learned word.
Out on the glacial cut, a hundred feet above the clear
dark river, Eleanor's two door Buick makes a switchback turn.