THOSE STUDENTS

Those few students arrived
early among
the potted morning glory
making a film about Emily
Dickinson
by the gestured roses
of green arboretum gardens
capturing film highlights
by statues of the Esplanade
in black and white
the sun bleeding
under fallen trees
over a rudimentary way
a camera moves in
for an improper Bostonian
documentary
in a twilight
of callow street lamps
casting shade
from a recent dragnet
of a marathon suspect
in a massacre
to discover a paradise theme
from Puritan waterholes
and once bewitched shadows
of Ann Hibbins hangs over
Boston Common
where Crispus Attucks
gave his life also
shattering below Frog Pond
by Weeping Willows
lining by swan boats
for Leda's friends
by winged ducks and squirrels
capturing a blond fleeced Jason
wanted for heroism
in a hapless revolutionary city
where vagabonds take catnaps
next to lovers on blankets
cutting rye bread
for cucumber sandwiches.