SUNSET: BATTERY PARK

By Evelyn Scott

From cliffs of houses,

Sunlit windows gaze down upon me

Like undeniable eyes,

Millions of bronze eyes,

Unassailable,

Obliterating all they see:

The warm contiguous crowd in the street below

Chills,

Mists,

Drifts past those hungry eyes of Eternity,

Melts seaward and deathward

To the ocean.