Watch HillAuthor(s): Jeffrey GreeneSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Summer, 1978), p. 89Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20158925 .

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Watch Hill Jeffrey Greene

It disturbs us

being told what to do

by the wind. It's not only

tying up our boats

that just yesterday, it seemed, the wind pushed in the bay,

a steady ring, but it's admitting we are no longer included.

If only we wore

the right clothes.

If only we settled for less

like the dunes.

If only we had wings we could veer across

the face of it, the wind telling us

to go in

out of the cold. There's the huge yellow hotel of our times

and our reservations there

for the off-season.

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