trip to Ann Arbor -- intro

What follows are four poems I wrote en route to, and in Ann Arbor on a trip there recently. It had been 28 years since I left the University of Michigan on a sour note -- hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and sent home to Cleveland where my parents welcomed me, and I spent the next 2+ decades in remission, relapse and remission from poor mental health. Currently doing pretty well, I thought a trip back to A-squared was in order, to reclaim my soul from both awful and ecstatic memories and to take some time out of time to experience the city once again.