Site Navigation Information Prose Poetry Art On the Stump Serials Question of the Week About the Authors Links and Awards Message Board			Douglas Tanoury East Grande Boulevard Lined with run-down and ram-shackled centers for assisted living And aging mansion in various states of disrepair and dereliction A city street in faded glory Where old people sit on wide front porches Talking together on summer afternoons in late August Watching the traffic pass as they had in June Until the sun sets across the street Behind the building with a burned out roof And beyond the elms in full foliage Until they are taken in Still talking in low voices Soft as the sunset colors That paints the purple sky in twilight And fade slowly into silence As darkness grows Return to Detroit Poems