Tagged: new yorkers

every year, a new

every year, a new
infusion of potential
future new yorkers

insist on staying on the
grid – street and avenue people
.
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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
.
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on the edge of the

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
.
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on day two, we raced

on day two, we raced
our way up sixteen stories,
breathless with the wind

new yorkers in new york, before
the throng of out-of-towners
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: breathless

there is a light on

there is a light on
in the middle of the night,
only within
us, lying in our beds,
whispering across
the room, allowing
words to find
each other in the
dark, moving
towards a decision
that is more
living and less
remembering, one
year later, already so
urgently matter-of-fact
.
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across the Brooklyn

across the Brooklyn
Bridge, deep
within the tunnels,
out on the
park, shooting
upwards in
a gold-plated
elevator, in the
shadow of man-
made structures,
and on and on –
strangers
belonging

to each other
.
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