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A Way Out

Greg G. Zaino

Melancholy,
canyon walls mocking-
newcomers wary.

Off frozen salt waters
blasting an apocryphal landscape.

banshee winds roll scornfully
down Dorrance Street.

At eleven below- they come as damnation
bearing down emptiness.

Fifty mile an hour winds
gaining momentum from the north.
the arroyo acquires assignation:

Providence...

Vertical glass, red brick and stone;
how they withstand.

The dispiriting wind,
screaming ferocious,
biting the face while spilling its guts.

Across the plaza
a cobbled menace for the sick ones.

Breath suspended at eye level-
trees stripped,
caverns sealed,
bronze statues bold- unflinching.

Ice-covered grasses brittle,
fractured skies extreme-
blistered...

We;
the huddled ones
the distant ones;
waiting for awaited spoon liberation,
belt buckle redemption-
an alternative-
not a choice.

We shiver a way out
the canyons refusal-
a way home,
out of the arctic withstanding.

To briefly soar- escape...

While Stevie dies
on a soiled linoleum floor...

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