Lonely Chicago Poems

I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...

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Go do be to the dozens of them stars,

I say to the reactionary planet doing deeds for the floral arts,

when I went to the south...

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Stores are closed, shuttered
   Highways and roads uncluttered
On the water alight ducks and geese
   The air is still, infused with peace

Lonely...

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