sw00354v-12.poem10

Venturings



 Given the Chance & the Time,


Janice & I jaytrot 3rd,
enter Milwaukee's Hyatt Regency
& wander around its lobby until
upon the suggestion of a receptionist
we ride the fourth glass elevator
to the Polaris lounge & observation deck
that circles each hour at the hotel's top

where, encouraged to by its hostess,
we make our own leisurely circle
against (by my choice) its circling
& peek at such other human works as
the port breakwater to the southeast,
the Performing Arts Center close east,
the passing Schlitz seven blocks north,

Ambrosia Chocolate near northwest whose
soft sweet odor will later bless us,
the westward stretch of the city
from the MECCA complex to Wauwatosa,
the YMCA and the Marc Plaza
as we curve southwest and south
toward the Grand Avenue Mall on the way.

Off the Harbor Skybridge sunlight glows
this afternoon of this so far cordial
November, honoring the Farmer's Almanac
if not the cold- & flu-rocked, which
two days hence will honor it still as it
muffles the sun & turns us to dreaming of
polar bears in the cocktailing snow.




-
Brian A. J. Salchert