POEM XXXV: “MARATHON RUNNER, FEBRUARY THIRD.”
There’s always one of those wild-eyed and squirrely folk bounding across the Mass. Ave. Bridge in a pair of tiny shorts and nothing else in the subzero meatlocker blast freezer chill of February in Boston. Crazed with endorphins, grimacing–or frozen–in a rictus of glee, he looks like some ancient saint caught in his moment of […]