| Another day has come, another fabulous escape from the damages of night | #SouthsideMasonicTemple #KennedyKingCollege #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in A.M. |

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| I knew that a train would arrive | #WNorthAve #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Velocity Meadows |

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| The earth is not yet a garden | #GarfieldParkConservatory #GarfieldPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in My Mother |

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| The moon and stars have drifted off together | #SouthsideMasonicTemple #KennedyKingCollege #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Garden |

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| These days when there is little to love or to praise | #WickerPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Pot Roast |

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| I do not regret the passage of time | #SouthsideMasonicTemple #KennedyKingCollege #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Pot Roast |

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| Trying to recall the life she lost | #Englewood #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Poor North |

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| It's the story I tell about myself, about you, about everyone | #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Story |

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| It will happen again, he will come back | #Chinatown #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Late Hour |

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| Someone was saying something about shadows | #Englewood #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in From The Long Sad Party |

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| The weight of a whole day come to rest | #NorthAvenueBridge #NorthBranchChicagoRiver #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in For Jessica, My Daughter |

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| There were times when I could believe | #PingTomMemorialPark #Chinatown #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in For Jessica, My Daughter |

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| A place beyond, beyond love, where nothing, everything, wants to be born | #GarfieldParkConservatory #GarfieldPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in My Son |

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| Tell yourself that you love what you are | #LakefrontTrail #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Lines for Winter |

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| Walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself | #Englewood #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Lines for Winter |

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| As it gets cold and gray falls from the air | #Chinatown #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Lines for Winter |

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| What light there is | #GarfieldParkConservatory #GarfieldPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Another Place |

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| I see the water the single boat the man, he is not someone I know | #BelmontHarbor #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Another Place |

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| My way into the next world | #GarfieldParkConservatory #GarfieldPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| A sober and reflective act | #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| I have written a speech for you | #PingTomMemorialPark #Chinatown #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| I wonder if my poverty would be more complete without you | #LakefrontTrail #SouthLakeshoreDrive #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| This longing to say something that will charm or amaze | #CanalStreetRailroadBridge #SouthBranchChicagoRiver #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| There's a longing that has no voice | #PingTomMemorialPark #SouthBranchChicagoRiver #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| We have allowed the enormous airs of the future to engulf us | #CanalStreetRailroadBridge #SouthBranchChicagoRiver #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| We have allowed the enormous airs of the future to engulf us | #CanalStreetRailroadBridge #SouthBranchChicagoRiver #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| Perhaps we should be silent | #DiverseyHarbor #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| Heavy glory upon us | #GarfieldParkConservatory #GarfieldPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| Now give us the day, this day | #ChicagoRiverwalk #ChicagoRiver #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| I walk into what light there is | #BelmontHarbor #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Another Place |

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| He thought of himself at that moment to be more than his need to survive | #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Untelling |

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| Imagining you at this moment trying to imagine me | #GarfieldParkConservatory #GarfieldPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| It must be early morning | #DusableHarbor #ChicagoRiver #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| This instant in which we both write, this flash of voice | #NorthPond #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| I have no rest from myself | #MontrosePoint #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| The silence was in him and it rose like joy | #GarfieldParkConservatory #GarfieldPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Untelling |

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| How still the world is | #HotelLincoln #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| What I was I am no longer | #PingTomMemorialPark #Chinatown #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| There are words that I use | #CityGallery #MagicMile #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| Is not giving a need? Is not receiving a mercy? | #GarfieldParkConservatory #GarfieldPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| How sad it is to come back to one's work | #HancockBuilding #StandardRoom #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| How much pleasure it gives me to imagine you standing on the very ground | #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| Poems have come to seem so little | #AllofMankind #NorthsideChicago #StrangersHomeMBChurch #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| Soon I shall know who I am | #GarfieldParkConservatory #GarfieldPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Monument |

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| He felt the world recede | #HotelLincoln #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Untelling |

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| He would never catch up with his past. His life was slowing down | #ChicagoRiverwalk #ChicagoRiver #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Untelling |

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| He wanted to know but not to know | #PresenceStJosephHospital #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Untelling |

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| She held my hand and led me toward the water | #GarfieldParkConservatory #GarfieldPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Untelling |

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| And the sleepers rose as if nothing had happened | #ChicagoTribuneTower #ChicagoRiverwalk #ChicagoRiver #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Untelling |

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| It was hard to keep reading | #NatureBoardwalk #PeoplesGasEducationPavilion #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Story of Our Lives |

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