Pleasant Street

We loved tilted porches
overgrown with goldenrod,
driveways split by crabgrass
riven by Scottish thistles like
lesions, the rusted basketball
rim nailed to an unkempt birch
tree. The “NO TRESPASSING”
signs, bright orange and glossy,
modernity screaming at us to stay
away, so we did, but we wanted those
forgotten worlds, cathartic nostalgia:
explore unknown pasts, provide
a reprieve, one final act of
acknowledgment.

Adam Chabot is the English Department Chair at Kents Hill School, a private, independent high school located in central Maine. He has other poetry forthcoming or recently featured in rough diamond poetry, Moss Puppy Magazine, and Windows Facing Windows Review, among others. He can be found on Twitter @adam_chabot.