Psalm for a City Lost

This stands out. There's a powerful interweaving of the declarative and the interrogative: the bold statement is juxtaposed by the questioning proposition.

It is angry, resentful and both sure and unsure. I like the use of the placenames - it gives context and physicality. I'd give "pawtucket" a capital first letter. There may be a spelling error in "vallient" - should that be valiant ?

I like the way it re-creates that Old Testament tone, with syntactical inversions ie. "Glorious are you, and excellent", and appeals to Yahweh. It has gravity but without being sanctimonious, and there's a terrible truth in the recognition of our barren secularism devoid of higher spiritual truth....Rgds., Alan.