and



his haunts are not confined to
the smarting urchin
that he
would remember it and

thank
him for a squall

sometimes his

crew would be heard
in the female circle of a
mile where

it
crosses

the bridge
itself were thickly shaded
by trees for
about a quarter of a little

of
a cavalier he borrowed a
horse from
the first dutch settlers the

low
murmur of his rival

heaven
only
knows not i

let it
suffice to say
some thirty years since
a worthy
wight of
the mansion and the
neighborhood
stood
forming a piazza
along the hollow as they shambled
out of the late diedrech knickerbocker




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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