Lapping at the feet
loving sea, goes overhead
changing as the dog
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Photo: Alki beach, Seattle
Lapping at the feet
loving sea, goes overhead
changing as the dog
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Photo: Alki beach, Seattle

Falls may seem to choke
as rain from dying petals
yet life blooms again

The past embedded
resurrects each memory
on walls and in minds
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Good to know: The lower parts of the Tribune tower incorporate rocks and relics that Tribune correspondents had brought back from their travels. There’re pieces of the Berlin Wall, The Great Pyramid, Abraham Lincoln’s tomb, Westminster Abbey, Taj Mahal, Notre Dame de Paris, and much more.
Looming, obvious,
magnificent—vanity—
alike light houses
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Photos: Three of the many lighthouses on the Magnificent Mile, Chicago.

Go around ceaseless
like boomerangs, come choices
with consequences