Hills like cut paper
black against tissue blue skies.
Through poked holes, stars shine.
Driving home at sunset
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Category Archives: beauty
Nearing seventeen
Unaware of her
beauty, unselfconsciousness
gives each movement grace.
High school play
Geeks transformed into
leading men stop hearts, but then
revert back next day.
For whom the bell tolls
From an estate sale –
pendulum clock. Westminster
chimes now count my days.
Empire State Building – in the elevator
Tourists whisked to the
top while on tenant floors, one
hears “shhhhhhsss” like secrets.
Empire State Building – at the base
Like a hick I tilt my
head to see the top and
ponder tossed pennies.
Morning in midtown Manhattan
In the skyscraper
canyons, light outlines moving
shapes sipping Starbucks.
Double entendre overheard at LaGuardia
“We’re domestic,” a
blonde woman tells her daughter
in line at the gate.
1964 World’s Fair Unisphere
Flushing Meadows Park
once a site of hope. There, a
globe pledged future peace.
only blog can make a tree
a dilemma of
riches in tiny topaz
the art of language
a haiku a day 