“At Lake Merced” by C. Dale Young

A poem by faculty member C. Dale Young appears at The Collagist:

At Lake Merced

Some men go down to the river.
I went down, instead, to the lake, the air
silent and stretched tightly over it,

the water unmoved and dangerously still.
Some men move past such a scene
without even the slightest notice of it.

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