All These and I Today Are One

ALL THESE AND I TODAY ARE ONE All these and I today are one Two blocks The neighborhood Supermarket flower shop bakery music school Drug stores creamery burger stand Baptist church Restaurants stationery shop Emerson School dime store Filling station alley-garage theater apartment houses Downing Street 16th Colfax many trees and many houses Is to value childhood pleasure happiness naïve, This child in later years, From habitual convenience bound? The solemn English horn of memory Reviews it all in minor key I urge you see A child’s dissolved personality, See him surely slowly integrated, Become a part of street and trees, Mingling with the axle grease, As well the milk and cheese While dying of mere summer games, Played out through years of yearning for lost times, A crowd of ghostly voices call By unexpected means Through the veins AND Surely do they course my veins As blood congested Races in reverse Old neighborhood’s almost too much a part of me – Walking running skating SHOUTING! The infinite as boundary