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The Garment District

Overnite

City trucks slowly rumble along the street

Dust
Dirt
DNA

All powerhosed 
What's left suspends like your aura

Perfume lingering
Forgiveness falling, gliding almost

unseen

         a golden leaf deep in the forest
Resting among fellow leaves 
Experienced in changing seasons

Cautious

         but not fearful

Cautious

         but not fearful










15 Pews


The backward glance the morning cast
Without regret on midnight past

And lives now strewn to what may be
Where once the stars shone bright for thee

Must gather centuries eternal dust
For only darkness, graveyards trust

The whistling wind, her tall tales told
Of demons, dragons, warnings scold

Where earthly altars blessed the few
That knew their place…….the fifteenth pew

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