'Bold Point'

'Bold Point'


No, this Bold Point is not
somebody's muscular assertion,

It's just a little neck of land --a spit--
a tiny foothold here,

of grass and sand,
and lapping waves--

timidly, it pokes into
the River Providence,

and cringes, barely noticed,
in a busy city day,

Buffetted by roar and whine
of highway traffic,

magnet for the dreary plastic
residue of progress (the last indignity)

it's gentle beauty stained.



Somehow, it moves us,
now that we have stopped to look,

and so, we stoop,
and, for ourselves mostly,

we gather up the pulltabs,
hypodermic needles,

plastic no-deposit, no-returns,
the tampon applicators,

the countless cups of styrofoam,
the diapers, papers, broken glass,

and all the random wrappers,

( jjorge )



Today, on 'Dean Visibility Day' the writer was one of twenty Dean supporters who spent the morning cleaning refuse from the beach at Bold Point Park East Providence Rhode Island.