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The poetic city: “For A First Girlfriend On Her 75th Birthday”

Jul 13, 2020 • Creative Writing
 
For A First Girlfriend On Her 75th Birthday
 
 
Sometimes when I am driving down Claiborne
heading to the Marigny for some dancing 
on Frenchman Street…
 
I can’t help turning my head and glancing
just as I cross Jefferson Avenue,
as if to catch a whiff of a memory
 
Of a time and place so long ago
that it seems like yesterday. 
 
Reece Burka
4/1/2020

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