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break-down
Skyline driver-carriage
frozen
into
four-square mirror
ice-block
city
transport
cube
and
cubist
tableau
How not to summon Sandburg winter stockyards?
How not to re-see black Projects, boxed human damp and chill?
How not to re-walk cold Irish, Polish, Bohemian sidewalks?
How not to board at speed Green and Red Lines –
King Drive, Ashland/East 63rd, Halsted, 90th Dan Ryan?
How not to earn spring thaw Chicago?
How not to ride un-iced Chicago, train and carriage?
How not to warm with hot-humid summer Chicago?
How not to un-hog Chicago, South and North Halsted?
How not to outdoor-people Chicago, all Chicago,
the busy tickets of human heat from cold of the L city?
Charlottesville Juleps
Mr. Jefferson’s Virginia
Monticello and University
Serpentine Walls
Pavilion grandeur
Palladio in the Blue Ridge.
The genius of the Declaration
and, well,
Sally Hemings.
Ah those First Families of Virginia
those Lees of Virginia
Frances Lightfoot Lee
Lighthorse Harry Lee
and always Robert E. Lee
The Confederacy’s own