Doug Tanoury

Doug Tanoury writes poems about Chicago and can be reached at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6915/

Ladies Walking

On State Street ladies in trenchcoats

Walk large poodles with pompadours

And sculpted fur through dappled

Shade from locust trees growing behind

Wrought-iron fences in small frontyards

Of brownstones

On Astor Street ladies with hair tucked

In berets slowly walk perfumed pomeranians

Past a doorman sleeping at his post

In morning light golden like the deep

Yellow paint on taxicabs that cruise

The street

Doug Tanoury