A Spring Poem

April 2017

Whispers trick and enchant as just one

gust of wind, Central Park, early spring

feels like gale from a distant ocean.

But, remember, there is an ocean

not far from here! The sun in spring,

breeze, makes me feel closer to the one

I know, that place of eternal spring.

But, here, too, I have found an ocean.

One and one can sometimes equal one.

Two oceans, two springs, swirl into one zephyr—sends me soaring above this city that holds my

heart.

Who Lived Here Before Us? 

12/15/2016

Cling clang in rusty pipes. Sound of wet bones.

Radiator pumps heat. Doesn’t warm my wet bones.

Bathroom tiles tell tales, hide stories past.

Ghosts live between brick-set bones.

Beneath floorboards, out on the fire escape,

tiny sighs echo and sweat. Bones.

Who lived here before us?

Long forgotten, turned to dust. And, yet, bones.

Did they love like you and me?

Little love we grew here with our wet bones.

Elegy for An Activist

12/15/16

I am an aquamarine H&M t-shirt, $5.99, thin at the sleeves, breezy at the waist.

You bought me to wear to the march, but you missed the march because you had to work.

Pay the rent, double shift, whatever it takes.

The money saved on me, such a steal!, will make things easier, won’t it?

You bought me to wear to the march, but you missed the march because you had to work.

Blood pumping, pump pump pump, like the beat of the sewing machines that made me, in the

sweaty room with no windows in the only job for miles.

Just like the tiny fingers who wove my thread through, attached to the hands, attached to the

arms, to the torso, containing the heart, that beats to survive.

The money saved on me, such a steal!, will make things easier, won’t it?

She couldn't go to the march, either, because she had to work.

Blood pumping, pump pump pump, like the beat of the sewing machines that made me, in the

sweaty room with no windows in the only job for miles.

Pay the rent, double shift, whatever it takes.

She couldn't go to the march, either, because she had to work.

I am an aquamarine H&M t-shirt, $5.99, thin at the sleeves, breezy at the waist, on sale. 2 for

$10.