CHRIS J. MELANSON

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“Her City’s Hold”

In a city park

Where nature lives—

An island of color in a bleak

Or gray sea.

Where humans laugh—

Music, compared to the artificial

And bad noise.

She sits alone

On a stone bench

And weighs out two questions:

Stay or go?

She wants to leave her city—

So many reasons to go—

To exit.

But there are so many reasons to stay as well—

Stay in her hell—

In her dwelling, that she may no longer

Compel herself to try and understand.

Her city is the interval between birth and death.

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-Chris J. Melanson 2007

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