Twin Cities Minneapolis/St. Paul In Maginot Michael Gause      for the Cities Maginot waves break east to west But all is north to those this high           I.           While memories of farmland           Keep us to soil           The drama of hands           Winds the stopwatch Uptown Something must know me so I know home           II.           Išve seen us read ourselves aloud           While elders hunker in quiet houses           I blame Loring secrets and hungry youth           I blame us all for the fall of Hennepin And never has a twin so Feared the conclusions Ask Hidden Falls why it holds back its years           III.           At the edge of the water           A loon calls morning           Franklin Avenue           Makes a brunette gasp again           Both sounds are bridges           And do not distinguish (Michael Gause's work has appeared in The Venerable Seed, ArtWord Quarterly, Rape of Narcissus, Poetry Motel, Unarmed, and Red River Review (Nov '01) and online at minneapolisunderground.com and mentalcontagion.com. Co-founder of "The Day on Fire," a televised reading series, he is creator and host of "The Bean Counter Coffee Reading Series" in St. Paul, Minnesota.)