“Lost Children” by Joseph Capista (poetry, ’16)

An excerpt from “Lost Children” by Joseph Capista (poetry, ’16) published at Valparaiso Poetry Review:

LOST CHILDREN

Coney Island, June 9, 1941

In Weegee’s photograph we see the boy

Unmothered underneath the boardwalk sign,

But it’s the man, his smile, on whom we fix

Our gaze, white shirt, white belt, white captain’s hat:

Our eye holds him a beat, then wanders toward

The littoral awash with roustabouts

And idlers, women half-undressed who laugh

A little loud because lost’s almost found.

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