Alley

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"Alley"

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"Alley"

Sun-baked tar with

a rusted, nameless bottle cap

sunken deep

like a mammoth,

so perfectly preserved.

Iron mesh stares mindlessly

from beneath aged

and broken

cement.

Split

and petrified

by the immortal onslaught

of time,

telephone poles lean

like sentinels,

fast, fast asleep.


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AUTHOR'S NOTES
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Another one from my time in Toronto. I was more settled in this one, no longer as disjointed as I felt when I first arrived and wrote "Hard Thing to Do". The world was becoming still and familiar, pulled like taffy from a vestigial past.

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