Magic is what happens when the sun rises.
This sunrise, I see mounting across the river,
hovers over a mansion that is only 200 years old.
A mansion where a family lived is now
vacant for thousands of other families to
inhabit vicariously. Flat stones at a bank
of the Hudson cool my bottom.
Flecks of a grey sky seem ready to peel
from clouds, thick as boulders; a hulling
light stretches candl...