On the Street of Dreams
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A very small hand sticks out through the mail-slot. A horse-drawn carriage comes to a halt. Days and days of rain follow . . . It is on such a night you step out into the world. The pockets of your trenchcoat contain books of matches from restaurants you've never been to. You're in a movie. It's the 1940s. You just passed the corner drugstore - Where is everybody? Raindrops are dripping through the leaves of the locust tree into your already dripping hair, dripping in little rivulets down your cheeks, drenching your clothes and the pair of used shoes you bought from a hunched man with stains on his pants. A very small hand sticks out through the mail-slot. A horse-drawn carriage comes to a halt. Days and days of rain follow . . . Welcome home, my friend.
Jonah Winter is the author and illustrator of several children’s books, as well as a semi-professional clarinet player. His second book of poetry, Amnesia, was winner of the 2003 Field Poetry Prize, and his poems appear in Ploughshares and Pushcart Prize XXV.
