I will be participating in the Third Coast Author and Book Festival in Grand Haven on Saturday, March 22nd. The poets will be stationed at Salon 206, 222 Washington Ave, from 11 am – 4 pm. Please stop by to say hello if you are in the area. I wrote this poem a few months ago after visiting my sister in the Grand Haven area; it seems appropriate to the occasion (Ferrysburg is a small community adjoining Grand Haven and Spring Lake).
FERRYSBURG, MICHIGAN
The street between the Citgo station–
fill ‘er up with regular,
the attendant pumps your gas–
and the Ferrysburg City Hall
is lined with bright bungalows
and the well-kept ranches
our parents lived in
before four bedrooms
and two-and-a-half baths
became essential components
of middle-class bliss.
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