By GARIN CYCHOLL.
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1.
dark sun
glint on gulls
wintering a-
stride cracked
asphalt
Grand
Crossing dia-
mond where
Buck Weaver
once
played
2.
blue light
incessant
over a pole,
buzz box at
the corner of
Cottage &
65th…sur-
veilled city
humming
inside
3.
Ceres sings a-
top the Board of
Trade;
pork bellies &
July beans in chorus
4.
“if you’re on the Dan Ryan,
you’ll start seeing brake lights around Pershing”
5.
pistol flashes into neon;
the cop show calls for extras
6.
fungo &
dormant
ivy…spring
by Wrigley’s
first
light
7.
moonglance
cold metal brow—
Il Duce on horseback
8.
paddling Mud Lake;
Aqua Building in flat,
white repose against
some false Chicago
9.
dissembly
line…….light
drained
from a
hog’s
eye
10.
glimpse of L
light..train’s
downtown
crawl opens
onto
you
singing
11.
flash towers in Whiting;
light’s fetch over lake
12.
baseline & boxed
play—pulse slim
against mirror;
Michelson’s race
track for light
Fermi peers into
some other world;
light pushes back
13.
remembrance of
some
white
city;
Ferris
wheel
turns
in end-
less
plaisance
♦
GARIN CYCHOLL’s recent novel, Rx, is a play on The Confidence-Man, a man practicing medicine without a license in a Dis-united States. His recent work has also appeared in ACM, The Typescript and The Dead Mule of Southern Literature. His book-length poem, prairied, is forthcoming from BlazeVOX.
