BY SPENCER KEENE
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The pavement exhales its
rain-sweat breath into
a sea of rubber soles,
coughs its sweet memories
of saccharine-soaked tears.
Concrete gutters act as
arteries, shuttling debris
through curbed veins into
storm drains that swallow
meals of remembrance.
The lamp post illuminates
the sidewalk scenes taking
place beneath its glass brim,
bends its curved steel neck
like a thin Jurassic beast.
Pools saturate the empty
asphalt of innumerable
parking lots, bury themselves
into pebbly skins to be
inhaled by a lung of sun.
Populations of iron and
rebar live their silent lives
among us, unnoticed and
concealed behind dense
mists of human oblivion.
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Spencer Keene is a writer and lawyer from Vancouver, B.C., Canada. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in a variety of print and digital publications, including SAD Magazine, Sea to Sky Review, Candlelit Chronicles, Star*Line Magazine, and Across the Margin. Find more of Spencer’s work at www.spencerkeene.ca.
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