If I Could Be Anywhere

i.
reading Guy de Maupassant on the PATH
Hoboken platform       1993
just out of college
string of lights down one tunnel       paling       gone
my freshly-khaki’d butt in the hardwood slab
let’s call a bench       my yellowed book open       another
up the nearer tunnel       clattering to
a string of lights       mine       this morning

ii.
20 minutes early
to Battery …