Jersey Rain
Jersey Rain by gregg chadwick Via Flickr: Gregg Chadwick 30"x40" oil on linen 2015 Inspired by Robert Pinsky and Robert Chadwick JERSEY RAIN by Robert Pinsky Now near the end of the middle stretch of road What have I learned? Some earthly wiles. An art. That often I cannot tell good fortune from bad, That once had seemed so easy to tell apart. The source of art and woe aslant in wind Dissolves or nourishes everything it touches. What roadbank gullies and ruts it doesn’t mend It carves the deeper , boiling tawny in ditches. It spends itself regardless into the ocean. It stains and scours and makes things dark or bright: Sweat of the moon, a shroud of benediction, The chilly liquefaction of day to night, The Jersey rain, my rain, soaks all as one: It smites Metuchen, Rahway, Saddle River, Fair Haven, Newark, Little Silver, Bayonne. I feel it churning even in fair weather To craze distincti...