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Ten Minutes in Chicago

Christine Swanberg

A full moon loops
around Buckingham Fountain.
Horns muffle, evaporate
into Lake Michigan, holding
cement monoliths so bold
I wonder why a woman
could love this city.
The brusque wind has killed geraniums
potted in the sidewalk cafe’s white boxes.
Sipping cappuccino, hot froth of milk,
surprising January splash of sun: Why
does this city comfort me,
small woman with a past
a hundred miles away?

Here I am the golden phoenix
of my dreams, drinking elixir
from a bone-white cup,
watching another woman
wearing a blue beret,
her face large, lunar and pale,
ruby lipstick startling as the siren
the slides from my periphery.
Anything can happen here:
Matisse to murder.
Sandburg’s thumbprint
or a lighthouse blinking
under moonlight in the fog.

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