Ah, my radical friend. Later,
it was still the sixties,
the soi-disant and distant sixties.
The long-haired sixties,
where every pair of shoes was a protest.
I stole my parents’ half-wrecked Mercedes
to visit, sticking the long hours north
to Springfield. I spent the weekend alone,
watching strangers shoot up.
At the Evening Cotillions, 1964
William Logan
William Logan’s most recent book of poetry is Rift of Light (2017), and his most recent book of criticism is Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History (2021).