Phố 20 mùa xuân 20th street spring

20th street spring

the wives of the black-sailed seminarians
take their children to walk with green pails

they are light-haired and slim their husbands are studying
passion and service the seminary

is old the baby leaves of the old sycamores are pale green
are river yellow like the high light arms of the sycamore

the seminary is red and soot-darkened
by the soot-making city it is at the side of the city near the river

it stands aside from the piers and the warehouses and the
longshoremen
it intends to be quiet and dark though sunlight surrounds it

sun lies on the streets and the lawns and the children
of the seminarians play with red hoops in the street in the sun