Monthly Archives: July 2012

I sit on Millionaire’s Row

Posted on July 23, 2012 by stlouisisapoem

I sit on Millionaire’s Row, what’s left of it, my German accent barely noticeable, the cries from parades of grief moving through my doors now calmed. I sit in a magnificent silence, the only sounds the chips of mortar chisels, … Continue reading →

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More than a memory

Posted on July 14, 2012 by stlouisisapoem

Dewey defeated Truman here, or so the paper said, the one held up by a triumphant smile at the back of a rail car. Millions had blurred through in war-time urgency, not seeing a future of biking rails, not rail … Continue reading →

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Symbol

Posted on July 7, 2012 by stlouisisapoem

In hot sunshine’s last gleaming it rests, this nod to the past, this hope to a future that didn’t happen except in imaginations, and dreams, but it sits nonetheless, a stately repose as its necklace of pods carry us upward … Continue reading →

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