Landscape

from Children of the Anxious City by Al Russell

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Today it looks dark, no sun
all the trees are sickly
from the windows the smell of food

like night, but paraphrased.

Nothing is missing
not a stitch of clothing
or a blade of grass
is out of place.

This is how things are:

Inside the fence
children play ball
on a court choked with weeds,
glass, tire tracks.
Every day they parade
to the big industrial school building.

Every day they come back out.

Wade through rusted
beer bottle caps
to get to the one
hole in the chain-link
a crack in the armor
people cross sometimes
to wound the anxious city.

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from Children of the Anxious City, released January 14, 2019

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Al Russell North Carolina

Al Russell is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. She is a poetry editor at Outlook Springs literary journal. She is also an ordained minister of the Church of the Subgenius. She lives in North Carolina.