Louis Faber is a corporate attorney and adjunct professor of English literature at Monroe Community College.  
His work has appeared in publications such as Rattle, Pearl, European Judaism, Midstream, Midnight Mind, 
Worcester Review, South Carolina Review and elsewhere.  He lives in Rochester, NY.

Louis Faber
 


Chicago
 

This muscular city
is defined by
great blocks of stone,
hewn granite, 
limestone, transfixed
along the aortal river
its asphalt arteries
churning by day
now quiet.
 

In the hollow hours
when the city
lumbers into sleep
the clop
of my heels echoes
off polished marble
gathered by the dome
that caps the lobby,
reflected back
metronomically skewed.   
 

Half a country distant
my lover is
curled in sleep
the cat nestling
her feet, unmoving.
I hear her breath
in the breeze 
that slips beneath
the brass framed doors,
see her smile flicker
off the slowly revolving door.
The languid look
of the desk clerk
distracted from his book
urges me
to the elevators.