Two Poems: America Coast To Coast

Two Poems: America Coast To Coast

15 June 2025 By Philip Kuepper “Cape Song” I hitchhiked the arm of the Cape.I hitchhiked the bicep of it.I hitchhiked the elbow, the fist.It is splendid,the curve of it,the curve of it, north,into the Atlantic,into the cold, hardblue of the Atlantic. (Men have,for centuries, set outfrom the fist to fishthe Banks, where rich depositsof fish are kept,men having been holding up the Banks,for centuries, with their rods,and in their getaway boats.)Th…