Quixotic Windmills

Gloucester's Man of La Mancha

By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 06, 2016

Quixotic Windmills

Route 128
Ends at Grant Circle
First sight of Gloucester
Looming windmills
Pox on city
Dead in the water
Fishing gone dry
Can’t pay its bills
Tourism now prime
Priceless views
Celebrated by artists
Tainted forever
Renewable energy
Good idea
Wrong location
Stabs the heart
Not quixotic irony
Man of La Mancha
Deranged knight errant
Enormous blades
Gull killers
Defiled city by the sea
From which
Brisk ocean breezes
Wafted schooners
Captains Courageous
Fishing Grand Banks
Swarthy sailors
Mocked by City Hall
Cheap energy
Filling coffers with
Pieces of silver

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Reader Comments

"What is the picturesque if not bucolic visions of the past."

Posted By: Jane Hudson on 09-06-2016, 05:34 pm
"In this context, of downward or servile change, see also the paradigm: "For The Union Dead," by Robert Lowell."

Posted By: Stephen Rifkin on 09-06-2016, 11:21 am
"My artist uncle who taught Gorky knew a lot of the Rocky Neck Artists.We would go visit them on Sundays when he visited us. Thieme was one. The skyline of Gloucester was painted by so many artists.Now forever tainted as you say.On the one hand are the stories of Blackburn and Slocum and the Perfect Storm,stories of human courage, on the other is the gentrification and those horrible wind mills.To cater to the market of tourists who come for the Romance they have killed the romance."

Posted By: Martin Mugar on 09-06-2016, 09:32 am