I think of the mountains to the west
Yes, Denver is the “mile high city”
But the mountains nearby
stick up another two miles,
and to the east lies hundreds
of miles of rolling
green treeless plains.
If I could make it
to California
or even back to Chicago
it might be worth it.
If I could go to Florida,
On some windswept beach,
Or cold clear blue spring
or some big city down
on the Ohio
like Cincinnati
or even Pittsburgh.
Cities with hundreds
of bridges and staircases,
cities with good food,
better people
and beer older than Colorado.
So I sit here,
Drinking overpriced beer
Surrounded by hipsters
Who know nothing
of work and steel mills
and dream of leaving,
but I comb my hair
up into a ponytail
and know I am here.
About anthonyuplandpoetwatkins
https://www.goodreads.com/AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins
born
in Jackson, The United States
August 04, 1959
gender
male
website
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genre
Poetry, Historical Fiction
influences
James M. Lancaster, Brenda Black White, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Al Filreis
member since
March 2011
About this author
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There is little about me that isn't already available at Facebook or Linkedin, or countless other places.
Poet, writer, construction worker, salesman, truck driver, climber into the attics of total strangers, father and husband, and all around one of the luckiest men on the planet.
My luck continued with a win in the June Goodreads Newsletter Contest! What an honor!
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Additional Influences: Bob Dylan, William Faulkner, Barbara Kingsolver, Gloria Naylor, Eudora Welty