The following version of this poem was used to create this guide: DeAngelo, John. “Gods in the Streets”. Carmina Magazine, http://carminamagazine.com/gods-in-the-streets.html.

Note that all parenthetical citations refer to the line number from which the quotation is taken.

“Gods in the Streets” is a speculative poem which draws from Greek mythology. It opens with an epigraph: "Crowding for warmth with other unknown divinities in an underpass at night." —Charles Simic's "Tattooed City." This poem was published shortly after Simic’s death. It’s told through the eyes of a first-person narrator who encounters one of these gods, and juxtaposes the grandeur of classical myth with the grittiness of a modern-day city.