Tagged: new york city
you couldn’t help it,
you couldn’t help it,
on purple sage saturday,
coming with a tray
of new plants from union square, as
if your plot were bigger than mine
.
20210421:2200
y
yes, racist rants can
yes, racist rants can
still show up at the market,
an active player
.
20210327:2357
y
in the city that
in the city that
never sleeps, every other john’s
pizzeria is
a stone toss away – let us
meet there and order a slice
.
20210326:2038
y
most will let power
most will let power
go to their heads – whoever
said money is the
root of all evil has not
sat on the board of a co-op
.
20210217:2214
y
a cold winter’s night,
a cold winter’s night,
crossing university
for a bit of warmth
.
20210214:2016
y
our new old neighbors
our new old neighbors
have moved just a little bit
closer – listen to
where the floorboards creak, count the
paces between quietudes
.
20210110:1618
y
at every other
at every other
corner of the
city, a
marker –
to remember,
to forget,
to leave forever,
to come back to
.
20201209:1953
y
at every level,
at every level,
slipping into nimby is
so easy – if not
the upper west side, then the
east, jackson heights, or fort greene
.
20200807:1743
y
the cat in 19-
the cat in 19-
A introduced herself this
morning – in a dog-
chase-dog courtyard, it is much
safer to have the high ground
.
20200705:1637
y
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
.
20200522:0402
y
