We said “Streets” and they knew what we meant, patching the cracks in the road, pouring down fresh new tar, paving over till the ground beneath us was smooth. It is a public work— what is more public than an avenue, a street, a boulevard? But I always said “Streets.” And I hated the work. […]
Zach Czaia
Zach Czaia is a poet and high school English teacher living and working in Minneapolis. His first collection, Saint Paul Lives Here (In Minnesota), was published in 2015 with Wipf & Stock Press.