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This text provides a poetic recollection of a memory. Elements of sound and space blur the edges of remembered reality

Brown, Kristen

The Crambo
Volume 1 Article 11
4-3-218
The Neighborhood Bar
Kristen Brown
University of South Carolina, krwright@email.sc.edu
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For Graduate Students, by Graduate Students
The Crambo Volume 1.1 | Spring 2018
the neighborhood 
bar
by Kristen Brown
University of South Carolina
The neighborhood bar,
just south of the steel alloy border,
recedes in the rhythm of the
familiar songs that only metal can make.
Some discarded and desolate memory
clicks and churns into an almost knowable track.
The regulars know the shakedown song.
It is one that I so often danced to,
as you watched from the half-lit corner.
And if there is a timepiece master,
Then I will soundly clean his clock.
For you deserve a lovely verse,
measured slow and in sacrificial time,
The sway of thirsty hips
becomes a metronomic mire,
a refusal of the raucous rupture
just around the siding’s bend.
Despite the stumbles where brambles once had been,
the regulars remain true to their draughts.
The weaving of stories and swears.
And within the freight of memory, I grasp
for that empty space in a neon night,
a vacuous vault of steel solitude.
The sweaty handshake of home.
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