City
Let’s name the buildings here
after the families that did not
die first. A hardware store,
Boardman’s Tools, is inserted
into the ancestral line. Then
a library. Next, Boardman
Ford and Boardman Honda,
Boardman Heights High School
and Stadium. Each new structure
is an ageless baby, a borrowed
forefather. The city and its
inhabitants, blood brothers,
Boardmans. The family name
crawls onto the land, Boardman
Avenue and Pier, Boardman
Bay. Genes waft through the city
like pollen, like the smog clinging
to the scalp of Boardman Tower.
Have the Boardmans read "Ozymandias"?
ReplyDeleteFinally! An explanation for how all those same names get on so many different buildings. Well-done!
ReplyDeleteToday's image is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThis poem reminds me of Town. You've got towns and cities on the brain :).
Fabulous!
ReplyDelete"Genes waft through the city
ReplyDeletelike pollen, like the smog clinging
to the scalp of Boardman Tower."
Well done!
beautiful! "Each new structure is an ageless baby, a borrowed forefather." i too write a lot about life in my city, but this was a whole new way to look at her :) thanks!
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