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Lackawanna, burning

Bethlehem is burning it must be a metaphor for this city this life this politics sending ash into eyes almost like  smoke other older factories striped into sky at scheduled intervals but this black startles seen from my ridge 20 … Continue reading

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Lackawanna, 2012. The brown fields.

no gentrification here between the steel whale falls of factories that no longer blow stink into sky their carcasses pierced through by new trees threaded through tracks like rib bones the wind turbines pinwheel in sync spinning power from lake wind … Continue reading

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