Tagged: city
dad searches for mom’s
even in the big
even in the big
city, the “little” enclaves –
Chinatown, K-Town,
Little Senegal, Guyana,
Italy, Poland, India –
cannot contain
the vastness
of our mothers’
spices, simmering
on the stove
.
20220719:1717
y
we are within the
we are within the
city, and the city is
within us, or so
we like to pretend when making
it feels unattainable
.
20220627:2222
y
on these city streets,
on these city streets,
let your imagination
loose, the shape of trash
.
20220602:2102
y
spring making its way
spring making its way
to new york – the dahlias you
left on the front stoop
.
20220510:1914
y
the sparrows outside
the sparrows outside
my window are forever
collecting fallen
twigs and leaves to build a home –
city dwellers, on the move
.
20220430:1056
y
quarter keeping score,
quarter keeping score,
the neighbor and i wake each
other up in the
night, toilet flushing, floorboards
creaking, a simmering silence
.
20220327:0410
y
the city uses
the city uses
casual camouflage to evade
culpability
.
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y
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
.
20220303:2012
y
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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y
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