The Initiate Comments

'In that whole city you could hear a pin drop.    Believe me.    I thought I heard a pin drop and I went looking for it.'    I don't exactly know why this especially moves me, but it feels like the story of my life.

I like this simile of yours: There was the East River; there was the Hudson. Their waters shone like oil in sanctuary lamps.

Good one, not bad, though, or maybe eaxtly because, you'd expect something different of a poem titled The Initiate