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Places and Names

by Carl Boon




I’ve always wanted to live
in a common noun:
Patches, Kansas,
Butterfly, Arizona,
or any place of the dozen
called Tombstone.
Songbird, Pennsylvania…
how beautiful is that?
And blend in and soon be 
wanted by the modelesque 
blonde waiting tables
at the Broadside Grille--
the one with thumb-length 
scars her apron can’t hide.
One June evening 
amid serious thunder
I’ll slide in, sit in the corner,
and order an Iron City beer.
And she, as in a song,
will tie my shoes 
and tremble, remembering
what it was to be wanted
Her little boy back home
on Apron Lane
won’t know how beautiful
we are, two strangers
in Songbird conversing
in thunder, dreaming
of life in Skin, Idaho 
or Snowpack, California.


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Carl Boon lives and works in Izmir, Turkey. His poems appear in dozens of magazines, most recently Two Thirds North, Jet Fuel Review, Blast Furnace, and the Kentucky Review.
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