richard hugo - for ripley and the people on wylie

for ripley on wylie avenue who died and for my people there  -

      Some places are forever afternoon.
      Across the road and a short field
      there is the river, split and yellow
      and this far down affected by the tide.

              From  West Marginal Way
              InA Run of Jacks [1961]

it could be so many other lines, from poems or letters or dreams - all such good company in the night.