Town in Pictures

Saint Paul, 1 July 2007


The near accurate surveyors

who laid out this town never knew

the railway tracks would turn to rust

and hope would wander the streets

Windows knocked out like teeth

a once prominent hotel listing

after the collapse of 29

Idle stares of storefront mannequins

no longer passed by people of purpose

your grandparents now too old to stand in

line below the burnt out theater bulbs