There Will Come Soft Rains
The last remaining house on Locust Avenue was demolished in September 2007. It was notable for a period for the five chimney-like support buttresses along each of two opposite sides of the house.
David DeKok • Centralia, Pennsylvania
Catherine Coy
Prayer for the Suburbs
Let them be safe as houses, lined up
like people waiting for something to happen.
Let them be square as boxes,
more square than milk cartons.
Let them keep a small distance
from the sidewalk and the curb,
some space to breathe, but just enough
to separate what is mortgaged
from what the town maintains.
Let them marvel at
... See moreJuly Fourth bonfire is enormous—some fifty feet in diameter, half that height in the center, not yet lit so you can see the base of firewood but also the flotsam and jetsam of discarded lives: dilapidated chairs, bureaus, broken picture frames, wooden pallets, a child’s sled, the wreckage of a picnic table, what looks like part of a rowboat…The
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