Marc Zegans,  a poet and creative development advisor based in Santa Cruz California remembers Somerville fondly.  He’s recently completed, Lyon Street, a collection of poems about San Francisco during his coming of age in the late seventies and early eighties. Ephemere, a sense memory from Alphabet City on the cusp of gentrification, stumbles on a cornet’s chorus blowing through a tenement window.

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tangible evidence

of a muted cornet

playing in rain

around the corner

above the bodega

through stained

sheer curtains

billowing past

broken glass

fronting a cold

water flat

between C

and D

from the bathtub

in the kitchen

beneath the rusted

tin ceiling

doesn’t last

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