Larry Beckett: Second Avenue


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Neon in the rain, downtown Portland: photo by Orbmiser, 17 March 2008



In the hissing street, that old girl goes
with a newspaper over her bowed head,
and I blow my hands and walk on hard
in the fool's rain on Second Avenue,

all the holes closed for the night
and the bad wine wearing off,
and nothing for the cold but that fire
in an iron barrel, my knowledge of you.






Neon, downtown Portland: photo by Orbmiser, 17 March 2008

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