A Florida Boy Feels Destiny While Approaching Hartford and Knows the Healing of Blue Wounds Under Connecticut’s Blue Sky

Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem con    “the blueness of a wound” ~ Proverbs 20:30

The car that took him through the Gotham streets

And gave a glimpse to goggling tourist eyes

Of Johnny Mathis (think pop music beats)

Then swerved him to the Merritt Parkway’s skies

Revealed to him the land that he had long

Imagined through its poets.  It was not

Spectacular, no rock-bound coast, no song

Of Pilgims full of bracing hope and fraught

With fervent prayers.  Instead his vision saw

An autumn slope beside the interstate

And on it one New England pheasant, claw