Tagged: new york city
above and below
above and below
ground, the city meets and un-
meets, we tag along
.
20230413:2100
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easter sunday, up
easter sunday, up
and down twenty-third street, searching
for a connection
.
20230409:1825
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spring whistles with her
spring whistles with her
teeth at twenty minutes past
five, competing with
the clanging heat pipes waking
up early to keep us warm
.
20230406:1934
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spring dances across
spring dances across
our fire escape, from one
corner to the next,
singing the notes of morning
song before the sun rises
.
20230403:2131
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getting out of the
getting out of the
city looks like a day trip
off the island or
stepping inside someone else’s
dreamscape, unnamed entities
.
20230205:2106
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between the walls of
between the walls of
our unit, the pipes are heating
up tonight, scatting
a rhythm familiar
only to the oldest tenants
.
20221210:0020
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sky interrupted,
sky interrupted,
steel, bronze, iron, and copper –
autumn in new york
.
20221023:2129
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every town starts some-
every town starts some-
where – from stockholm to newtown,
we try our hardest
to remember or forget,
depending on your station
.
20221022:1741
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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
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every other new
every other new
yorker has a staten island
ferry story that
begins with wanting to get
closer to lady liberty
.
20220712:2001
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