City Limits

Inhale the impossibilities, framing faces
with Boston smog and Alston fumes
freezing on eyelashes
you swore you have seen before

on some train through downtown Hell,
a crust-dripping slice of allyway
propped up with rusting mortar;
or probably both.

And all the City's strangers
are trackmarks pocking the veins 
of One Ways and Do Not Enters,
each as you are.

Listen to that rush of wind
screaming up through sidewalk grates
of what will never be,
because you won't be seeing any stars.




"City Limits"
Jenna-Nichole Conrad
Wordsmith
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Brown Avatar
May 4, 2012 at 5:59 AM
Congratulations on your win in Frank's "A Summer Memory" contest Jenna. Love, Carol
Prabhu Avatar
April 30, 2012 at 12:31 PM
congrats on the placement in the contest.........~sashi
Johnson Avatar
April 30, 2012 at 12:00 PM
A wonderfully descriptive and well done piece. congratulations. Love, Joyce
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April 18, 2012 at 1:16 PM
Very well done Jenna....like it. - oxox love Anne-Lise
Smith Avatar
April 16, 2012 at 10:44 PM
Enjoyed this immensly. Could see it in minds eye. Boston is my wife's favorite city. She compares everything to Mass.
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