Hometown Hero: Chapter 23
The Saga of Terminal City: The Complete Urban Epic
Harlie Radio image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA
Hometown Hero: Chapter 23
by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole
Like a tree she felt—not one standing proud
after years, a cent’ry or more growing
in one patch of sunlight, upwards to sky
never reached. Instead she was a cross tree,
one afflicted with infestations of
burrowing mites, or in her branches roost,
not the rookeries of b…