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A frosty New Year’s morning
favorite room, corner window
we watch the Calatrava salute
a new morning sun.

Sea smoke rolls off Lake Michigan
the famous blue flame flags our cold walk
to the Plaza for coffee & eggs &
early chatter. Streets lined with
brownstone mansions, gothic churches
and cafes steeped in scent of the old country.
We savor bookstores, a movie
the riverfront. And beer.

City lights dot & glitter the night sky as our
cab delivers us to the warmth of golden lobbies
beckoning “come inside”
Phister’s piano man teases longing and
memory from the ivory & shadow
The towers turn, blue jazz on top; together
we encompass a new beginning
as open as Calatrava’s wings