Rare,
cubic
bricolage:
stone-leaf-glass-green.
Disparate, yet one
cresting urban preserve.
Wisdom, knowledge, struggle yield
brick uplifts, wild hopes, sunlit streets
before, between, beyond . . . Together,
Lights rise, illuminate a New City.
Rolando Herts, a former assistant director with the Office of Campus and Community Relations at Rutgers-Newark, is a member of the public service faculty of the Fanning Institute at the University of Georgia, where he works on community, economic, and leadership development projects. Posted January 2009.
