Midnight in Chicago

<p><em><strong>Midnight in Chicago</strong></em> is a haunting lyrical journey through the shadowed streets of a city that never sleeps. Samuel Ludke captures the pulse of Chicago at its most vulnerable hour-when neon lights flicker against wet pavement jazz spills from hidden doorways and quiet desperation drifts between skyscrapers like winter fog.</p><p>In these pages love is found under streetlamps and lost in alleyways. Strangers' lives brush together like passing trains and every story carries the weight of what might have been. With a voice both tender and unflinching Ludke weaves poems that blur the line between longing and loss memory and dream.</p>