Nearing seventeen

Unaware of her
beauty, unselfconsciousness
gives each movement grace.

Lost cell phone

Left in Manhattan
cab. Friends’ numbers, pix of my
kids in strangers’ hands.

Double entendre overheard at LaGuardia

“We’re domestic,” a
blonde woman tells her daughter
in line at the gate.

Morning in LeFrak City

On a cluttered Queens
balcony he stands, watching
the complex decay.

In mourning early morning

J9 can’t sleep since
her mother died stays up and
writes heartache in tears.

Live your dream

Today J begins
flying not yet a driver
the sky’s the limit

Wasted Saturday night

We watch bad TV
eat microwave popcorn feel
guilty not really.

Mom’s casual embrace

Longing to hug them,
I wait ’til they flutter near
like moths to my flame.

Retail therapy

Drove to the city
to shop eat sushi buy fun
things that make us smile.

Vintage style

Grey army trenchcoat
or lime green sixties jacket
J can pull off both.