Text Box: 20 Rauber Street Wearing the skin of my knees in low light of crowded houses and rats in vacant lots these sidewalks let my first blood. The Doppler effect of sirens in screaming night tucked me in and in that intestine I was moved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2003 Daniel Kantak

Rochester N.Y.

 

This street hasn’t changed much since my childhood.

The house where I used to live is gone.

It use to be after the grey-blue house on the left side of the photograph.

I wouldn’t walk this street now.

Visiting images of my childhood has been reduced to a drive-by.