Lunch breaks, summer I was 20 clerking for the City, I’d sit on
marble benches
across from the glass palace of DWP, over at the Mark Taper,
a theater-in-the-round, eat my sack lunch of sandwich and chips,
and read a book – Leaves of Grass, The Voice That Is Great
Within Us . . .
The Night’s Cascade
Garrett Hongo is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. He is the author of The River of Heaven, Coral Road: Poems, and The Mirror Diary.
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