I Had a Grandfather – Just the One
A poem from kaitlin ruiz.
Great Circle Earthworks (Newark, Oh.)
A poem by Daniel Wolff.
I fall while dancing on the eve of 9/11
A poem by Jan Worth-Nelson
Eventually Chicago
A poem by Margot Armbruster.
Trouble
"The jukebox at Pizza King didn’t bump any songs past / 1978 but we fed it quarters anyway"
Great Dams on the Land
"When my son rides the Switch Back Gravity Rail over coal lines in Jim Thorpe, I hope to God the mountains are His and my boy might believe in his ancestor clans."
meditations in the decline of western civilization
"this is how i ground myself. / i follow the writing on the wall."
Return (For Chicago)
"This city isn’t built on bullets / alone."
A Minor Biographical Insight
"What I remember of South Bend is smoking in the back yard. / The small, short houses of a cheap and curbless neighborhood."
3666 Warren Avenue E. Detroit, MI 48207
"Somewhere the houses are rebuilding themselves./Sanding away the lead-coated paint from their siding."
Ancient Places
"Every curve & angle of us was a sign to the end of times; / ... but we were too high and mighty to hear the trumpet"
When Asked to Describe Gary “In Your Own Words”
"I get to say that I’m from here."