THE EVOLVING CITY Joyce E. Latham K STREET, DECONSTRUCTING [for Washington DC, gentrified] Why are we rooted here, a sundry lot in winter dusk, viewing sad hanging entrails as a building gouged, once high born, buckles and tumbles into dust?   Joyce Latham has published poems in the Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, The Federal Poet, My Mama Always Said, and four anthologies produced by the Smithsonian Institution. She has won awards from Poetry Day 2000, Poet Magazine, and the Northern Lights Poetry Club, and her poem "Earthenwarers" was displayed at the art gallery of the Montgomery County, MD executive office building. She is a freelance writer and editor. Published in Volume 8, Number 4, Fall 2007.