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# Woodmont
- URL: https://www.merionwest.com/woodmont/
- Published: 2022-08-11T21:58:08.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-05T15:58:45.000Z
- Author: Erich J. Prince
- Tags: Poetry, Arts, Legacy, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-05-06 12:48

> The light coming out of the street lamps,

> how it reaches out over the narrow little bit of beach,

> toward the water.

> The beach that’s made more of pebbles than sand,

> the pebbles that hurt your feet when you walked on them

> when the weather was warm enough to leave your shoes behind.

> The light, how it doesn’t quite make it across the little rocks to where the water starts. A harder time reaching than the moon ever had.

> But, then again,

> it’s only ever been the thought that counts.

> The proprietor, whose name I can’t remember.

> He pulls the blinds shut at the restaurant where we ate an hour before,

> wraps the forgotten credit card in a napkin, and sets it in the drawer.

> The young man who left it, he’ll probably be back in a few minutes

> once he goes to buy gas or something like that,

> and realizes he’s left it behind, absentminded again.

> And the proprietor, he could have waited,

> but he had to be up early the next day to catch a train to New London,

> so he closes the door behind him,

> the door with the automatic lock and the blinds pulled down,

> and drives home in the cold.

### *Erich J. Prince is the editor-in-chief of Merion West.*