Kept in their place

The Indian Harbor Yacht Club, in Greenwich, Conn.

“But stepping aboard the launch, I felt the net,
woven so carefully by so many hands,
the seamless, almost miraculously strong,
transparent canopy that keeps everyone
in Greenwich exquisitely and forever in place.’’

From “The Net (Long Island Sound, 1960),” by Peter Harris, American poet. The poem is set at the exclusive Indian Harbor Yacht Club.

Here’s the whole poem:

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/harris/thenet.htm