a train to farmingdale

from mineloa
to carle place, westbury, hicksville,
bethpage, farm...ing...dale

brush strokes

i shiver to stand
where he stood with arm outstretched
brush alive with color




Irises (1980)

bookends

shared insight, viewpoint,
common tastes in black and white,
strolling through the Met

the horse fair

spirited, alert,
shoulders ready to shoulder,
the labor of art

(The Horse Fair, Rosa Bonheur
Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Quaker Meeting House

simple, neat, clean lines,
headstones nestled in dried leaves ,
friends’ last gathering


Quaker Meeting House

circle of (snowman's) life

facial features drop,
clothes fall into jumbled heaps,
death’s warm thawing touch

yawn

bare limbs and fingers
stretch against yellowing grey,
timber’s morning yawn

longer days

frozen earth, bare limbs,
departing sun's fading light
days are now longer

Darkness falls on 5th & 34th

Notes jotted on a coaster while sitting in a bar @ 5th & 34th on 01.16.06

Darkness falls on 5th Ave. and 34th and people hurry hurry by on the way home to evening work to meet others they know or want to know while two white men in gloves and knit hats stop handing out flyers for an internet café and a restaurant and neither see the still lit cigarette rolling by dropped by the girl in heavy make-up and black plastic coat who passed and puffed as a police car with lights and siren screamed by the entrance to a souvenir shop crowded with Japanese tourists buying hats and postcards while the double-decker bus passed the Brinks truck taking the day’s take from a Wendy’s and Papaya Dog and young girls laugh arm in arm as they hurry to a movie and a business man in tight wool overcoat eyes them with one hand raised to signal a cab that he wants to go home and the bike messenger chains his wheels for the day’s last job.