Jacket 25 - Leo Edelstein reviews "Memoir 1960-63" and "Nine Immaterial Nocturnes" by Tony Towle:

" Hudson and Worth

As the car alarms disconcertingly
respond to each other's pitch
I look down the former Anthony Street,
a former Anthony myself, where the moon
is full on the ears of Leon the donkey
and the hibiscus tree remains untamed
but picturesque and leaning a little forward
as if to peek between the curtains to the asphalt below
where a diagram of the 1943 Battle of Kursk has been laid out
in myriad notations of red and orange.
Notice the arrows near the parking lot. They
are Rossokovsky's T-34's, which will pierce the German salient.
At sunrise, faculty from the military college
will utilize jackhammers to simulate the clamor of battle
and trace the route of the attack. We ruminate in our bunkers
until the lesson is complete."