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Poetry Corner for April 17-18

By Staff | Apr 17, 2021

focus on the building

sign comes down

bricks are pulled away

structure shutters and falls

happens if you look

happens if you don’t

some mouths cry “history”

some cry “progress”

still others

beg for air to breathe

but you focus on the building

plotting balconies and stages

planning seating and lobbies

but you can’t bring air

back into his lungs

this vision is flipped focus

a brick between teeth

mouth pulled wide with effort

a diversion in decadence

to cries of exclusion

you will swallow this building

and your full belly

will cloud your thoughts

Jeni Alden St. Laurent

Nashua

hear them all at once

a city of voices

conflicting narrative

on a price divine

and a walk down Main Street

is just the thing to clear them

pressed back

with barricades of color

breathing art into concrete

then drive down DW

internally purr as the

wooden doors open to

the smell of coffee and books

must be Saturday

don’t forget your newspaper

Jeni Alden St. Laurent

Nashua

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