Posts tagged with “Edgar Allan Poe”

Sounds of These Streets

22 July 2008

Later, as I do, I’ll walk, under the pear trees, around the construction fences, past the low windows, block after block. As I walk I find myself recounting, in my own head, in my own voice, the very rhythm of the street.

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Careful! No Diving

1 July 2007

But we soon got to talking about the forty-odd creeks that — filled with sewage, industrial pollution, and disease (cholera and typhoid, among others) — Philadelphia long ago buried in pipes underground.

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