from Akron Cleveland Chicago
Tulsa Wichita Shawnee
the Midwest stamped
into a collage
by Robert Cwiok
alongside
parking tickets
money orders and checks
chronicling
our journey
through breaths
and deaths
myths
and griefs
calculated curves
and words
life's marks
silently echo
off the walls
of the Athenaeum
in the works
of Robert Cwiok
— Peter Lattu
March 2015