She ran

1.

both ways trying to find

    a way out she wheeled

around and gasped in fear

    she had nowhere to go so she

just went back and forth, around and

    around, the city shown in a bed of

autumn blue to the south and west:

    Chicago was still asleep the river had black

wind lines penned across its face

    and to the south was the open harbor

acrossed which spread the cloud wall

    furious and close buckling in the middle of the bay

sucking at the watch and creating a line of breakers:

    that seemed to roll from its base.

2.

High above the river hundreds of feet above the water
all she could do was rush to and fro as the seemingly enemy
closed moving in:  and further the only way out was in the
conjunction of their two forces, like planets in orbit,
she might be able to get to a tree and climb and climb:
she had no other way out and she was breathing hard.