Tagged: city living
learning to dodge a
learning to dodge a
different kind of traffic – a
city on two wheels
.
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the sparrows outside
the sparrows outside
my window are forever
collecting fallen
twigs and leaves to build a home –
city dwellers, on the move
.
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perhaps a third of
perhaps a third of
us have been chewed up and spat
out by the city,
waiting to be stepped on and stuck
to someone on his way up
.
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for the most part, the
for the most part, the
ones who can leave leave, the ones
who can’t stick it out,
compare notes with neighbors, at
times, eye the empty units
.
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between the old man
between the old man
snoring and the younger man
pacing the wooden
floorboards from above, we learn to
coexist, one night at a time
.
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our neighbor who gets
our neighbor who gets
up at four a.m. to take
calls with a global
workforce is most likely a
baritone, reaching for our sleep
.
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almost twenty-four
almost twenty-four
moons since we last stepped into
this neighborhood gem –
names are foggy, but the flavors
will never quite escape us
.
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in the middle of
in the middle of
the night in a pandemic,
someone is doing
laundry, the water swishes like
an alarm throughout the building
.
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the sun brushes through
the sun brushes through
a city’s skyline
with the same
comb as it does
newly turned autumn
leaves, making shadows
dance as we lead
and follow from one
place to the next
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: follow
at the tail-end of
at the tail-end of
a weeklong
storm is summer
brewing –
the city sweats
.
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