THE EVOLVING CITY

Joyce E. Latham


K STREET, DECONSTRUCTING
[for Washington DC, gentrified]

Why are we
rooted here,
a sundry lot
in winter dusk,
viewing sad
hanging
entrails

as a building
gouged,
once high born,
buckles
and tumbles
into dust?

 



Joyce Latham
has published poems in the Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, The Federal Poet, My Mama Always Said, and four anthologies produced by the Smithsonian Institution. She has won awards from Poetry Day 2000, Poet Magazine, and the Northern Lights Poetry Club, and her poem "Earthenwarers" was displayed at the art gallery of the Montgomery County, MD executive office building. She is a freelance writer and editor.

Published in Volume 8, Number 4, Fall 2007.