How easy to capture the sound of the wind
when the city was sleeping;
to share these borrowed row houses with phantoms,
pious and imperceptible,
on streets where nothing can thrive in spite of us now.
Now our dreams, lacking sequence, are reassembled and layered
to mirror the logic of our waking lives.
We look to them for permanence,
a way to sleep with doubt
and to doubt the single certainty.

© 2011, Anthony Nannetti

Anthony Nannetti is an English teacher with the School District of Philadelphia. He lives in the Bella Vista section of the city with his wife and two daughters. His poetry has appeared in several print and online publications including Guardian Unlimited, Mas Tequila Review, The New Writer, PhiladelphiaStories, Zone Magazine, Forge Journal, Exercise Bowler, and Bijou Poetry Review.

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