"Nathan LaFraneer" starts with mapping the route, "from confusion to the
plane." I always thought of the cab ride taking a path from Manhattan
through Queens where I grew up to either JFK (maybe called Idlewild, then --
the same name of the current SASKATOON airport!) or LaGuardia airports. The
route to either can take one past several large, crowded graveyards,
although recent highway construction has hidden them behind privacy walls.
I always associated the "ghostly garden" partly with those gloomy sites. In
fits of youthful ennui, I often remarked dryly that the only reason people
came to Queens from Manhattan was "to fly or to die." On the up side, We of
Queens DID have the '64-'65 World's Fair (Michaelangelo's Pieta was there,
even the POPE came!), the '69 Mets, and Louis Armstrong. So there was also
color and sun, glinting smiles and chrome plate.
CC
"Anima rising, queen of Queens." -- JM
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