‘So Long to Second Street’

Over the long-gone echo of a warehouse spray-painted

SHALLOW WHITEBREAD CULTURE luxury, twenty stories and more — dinge-windowed Greyhound station erased by bank tower, odor of hot Band-Aids abandoned with Nalle Plastics.

Rats, we pace construction mazes, the walkway where a stenciled razor blade urges GIVE UP.

But someone’s crossed it out.

Someone’s written NEVER.

Austin poet Cindy Huyser is the author of “Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems” (Blue Horse Press, 2014).

Poetry editor: Jim LaVilla-Havelin