‘Into yellow froth’

The Jenckes Spinning Company textile-factory complex in Pawtucket, R.I., one of many old factories along the Blackstone River.

— Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel

— Photo by Rosser1954

“Overhead the sea blows upside down across Rhode Island.

slub clump slub clump

Charlie drops out. Carl steps in

sllub clump

No hitch in the sequence….

They lay the bricks that build the mills

that shock the Blackstone River into yellow froth.’’

— From “The Tragedy of Bricks,’’ by Galway Kinnell (19270-2014), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. He was a native of Rhode Island who became a Vermont resident.