Brick

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Brick is the eye

of the beholder

Brick the coffeehouse facade

in Trendytown

lit by orb lamps

and succulents

Brick the closed factory

the wires laid bare

entwined to fresh canvas

of graffiti’d air

Brick the messenger

that flies straight through

the window of
his grandfather’s home

Brick the college town

and abandoned steeple

the famous band

and the show

they played

Brick the builder

clay and shale

bent and pressed

then fired

Brick the memorial

lasting and durable

eternal the way

memories are not

Brick the rowhouse

the color of rust

and jobs and puddles

left by black boys

Brick the feeling

of sinking
at the bottom

of it all.

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