
Having stuffed a fourteen-year-old issue of Global City Review in his pocket (it being the only truly pocket-sized journal), that he may have something to read on the train, the poet-as-professor saw that Ann Lauterbach had anticipated the beginning of fall semester in the year 2006:
on the bateau, in wild heat
children laughed through the history lesson
through the great facades in the Year of Friendly Fire
(from "Arm's Reach, Harm's Way")