Poetry in Motion
San Francisco
The Long View
Randall Mann
The Long View
Two lovers sit atop
Dolores Park: they stop
their argument to see
a church, a bridge, a sea.
They play a little game:
each man proceeds to name
his list of lovers, dead.
There’s no one left unsaid.
Anxious pigeons wait
for crumbs to fall. It’s late.
The weather starts to shift:
all fog, all love, will lift.
From Breakfast with Thom Gunn. Copyright © 2009 by The University of Chicago Press. Reprinted with the permission of The University of Chicago Press and the author. Muni Art 2020, San Francisco Beautiful, sfbeautiful.org. Poster design by Shannon Bodrogi.