What are you up to this New Year? Check out what is happening in downtown New York… Now that is one hell of a way to celebrate the New Year!
http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.php
So until 2009, here is a new poem, my last for 2008.
Happy celebrating!
Queen Street
The woman in the ragged
straw hat at the top end
of Queen Street, squints
over the crowd, no longer
in hope of reunion. Her
grandson, in white shirt
and blue jeans, still
believes the world he maps
out in chalk will survive
the galloping tides.
As sunset and street-
lights, colour the horizon
she dips her brush in
the rush of people
sends them crashing
over the canvas edge.
That’s a cool poem, unrhymed couplets seems to be all the rage these days, this a nice example.
Thanks Paul. This was one of those poems where the image and experience were so strong, the words wrote themselves.