Caseworker's Rounds

Caseworker’s Rounds

	Cabrini-Green 
	Public Housing
        Chicago

Where I am now
there are no leas, no
sheep feeding.
There are tenements,
children breeding.
Where I am now
there are no trees, no
wrens lighting.
There are halls far, dark,
an old man peeing.


Donal Mahoney
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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