Portrait of P`ere Tanguy

Georgia Anne Banks Martin
    On the bus I sat across from a man
    in a blue jacket
    his large hands rested below his round belly
    beard well trimmed he looks ahead,
    like a plastic Santa––
     
    like another man I remember,
    from another bus ride I took once.
    He was neatly dressed,
    though his clothes were worn.
     
    He spent the trip reading, re-reading
    a bible verse printed on a card,
    I told my friend about both of them,
    she accused me of idealizing the men.
     
    She might have been right.
    Yet, I can’t help thinking both of them
    were passing the time lost––
    in the wonderment of what if.
    
Georgia Anne Banks Martin - Georgia Ann Banks-Martin was born in Lincoln Park, MI on Feb. 6, 1971. She was raised on the southwest side of Detroit in the area known as Marion Park. She attended Beard Elementary, Wilson Middle School, and Southwestern High. However, she completed high school at Sidney Lanier in 1989 after relocating to Montgomery, AL during the summer of 1988. She earned her BA in English, Language Arts at Huntingdon College, Montgomery, AL (1997) and her M.F.A. (Poetry) at Queens University of Charlotte, located in Charlotte, NC (2009). Currently she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpentaria, CA
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