*** from Palm memo “Poems new” 23may2017 ***
POEMS new
POEMS #2
my orange juice
has been in the work fridge
too long …
oh wait it’s grapefruit!
10/19/09
can’t wait
for that so-and-so
to pass by
so i can
ignore him
11/3/09
the roll of the r’s
when the guy at the deli
utters
“buttered roll”
11/11/09
he moved among them
with helicopters
to catch the spirit of the crowds
but all he saw
was traffic patterns
SUBWAY REVENGE
the guy
who squeezes
his leg
against mine
gets squeezed against
as well
11/23/09
ghostly
LED lights
try in vain
to illuminate
the housefront
Xmas scene
on the lawn
solar LED lites
wanly planted
amidst the
xmas scene
12/3/09
Mozart Figaro overture
a guy scrolls on his iPhone
12/11/09
subway corridor
jingle bells
on bass chinese flute
12/23/09
half asleep
on the subway
pushing glasses
up my nose
that i had taken
off before
1/11/10
spring
is coming
one door
of the deli
is open
1/14/10
the anxiety
of not knowing
what sandwich
i want
at Subway
2/19/10
second train
right after
the first
blissful emptyness!
4/10
this beautiful weather
makes me nervous
4/14/10
snakes
don’t
blink
5/14/10
@ Beth Moed-Nelson
subliminal flashes of Facebook
switched to Excel
as I pass the cubicles
5/18/10
I want a job
waving a red flag all day
in front of a parking garage
10/19/10
pulling on toilet paper
a roar
omg the toilet
flushed itself
11/23/10
happiness
is
leaving a backpack
by the deli cashier
and you come back
in 15 minutes
and
it’s
still
there!
11/23/10
first ice of the season …
make a wish!
#7
train 3rd rail
sparking
sparkling
in the snow
12/16/10
DIA: BEACON
Am I
walking thru a doorway
or
into a mirror?
2/21/11
sudden rain
umbrella men
sprouting
as fast as
umbrellas
4/11/11
the momentary delicacy
of handing the deli man
a dollar bill
5/24/11
sitting down
on a subway seat
and it’s warm
5/26/11
adventurously
took a different trail
downhill
and came out
a little
different
Mohonk, 6/26/11
Carroll Gardens to Borough Hall
Walking a mile of Court Street
Lots of patisseries
Lots of Mexican restaurants
One deli
7/27/11
over morning juice
slaughter in Afghanistan
8/7/11
Fate
even after
one second
the napkins
in the bag
with the coffee cup
become saturated
with coffee
8/10/11
song title: I Can’t Get You (Out Of My Mind)
Woodside LIRR
station clock
frozen at
6:35
and a half
8/12/11
I try to resist
the flat-screen display
in the elevator
but I can’t
8/22/11
#7 train
52 St.
clear night
jewels of the skyline
8/15/11
how important is it
that they plant
purple flowers
in front of
San Francisco Airport
international terminal?
10/11
if that person craning every
30 sec to look for
hotel shuttle @ SFO
only had a book
10/11
paper scraps
blowing higher than
my 17th floor window
flags on
bklyn boro hall
whipping in the wind
1/13/12
momentarily
they can’t find my clothes at the cleaners
I turn & see
the blooming tree
*****
momentarily
can’t find my shirt & pants at the cleaners
I turn around
tree blooming
robin song
florid calligraphy
inscribed on morning
/ on picture of morning
summer is over —
applying Eucerin creme
to my poor chapped hands
10/12
the apparition of a previously unseen
building
ahead of me on amsterdam ave.
10/10/12
warm out
but first evening
of the season
that i can see
my breath
11/11/12
The trains
seem to come
all the time
Except when
you are sitting
& waiting for
one.
Dig for cap …
It’s already on my head!
What kind of spring is this?
3/21/13
something bubbling over
on the stove!
whoops no, just the rain
pelting down as usual
6/13/13
balmy June evening
me and the fireflies
out for a walk
6/26/13
passing pedestrians
in the rain
umbrellas
kiss
7/1/13
rainbow
but I don’t
have to take
a picture
7/3/13
July 4
no mail
just forlorn
Chinese menu
7/4/13
The tacky / giddy / dazzling /
claustrophobic / exhilarating
experience of walking down
Bway 54 -> 42 St on a
Friday nite
(or trying to walk)
That’s why
the coffee wagon
was gone
from Central
Park West —
Ramadan!
7/22/13
Ah, my daughter’s Victoria’s Secret catalogs —
They keep me young.
8/13
a pun
like a nasty
body blow —
quick and low
9/11/13
On the way to rehearsal
Stopping to finish my bagel w/ cream cheese & lox before I go into the deli so I have a hand to hold the coffee
Tracery of pink over Union Square
10/22/13
getting dark —
but library still open
happy solstice !
12/21/13
Mohonk, 1/3/15
In the pool
The New Age music
Is thank god
Overwhelmed
By the screaming kids
3/2/15
March sun
Slightly loosening
The hood on my parka
I didn’t
want sugar
just milk please
but hmm
this coffee
with milk
and sugar
isn’t
too bad
6/22/15
the birds
ringing the
volcano
continued to
sing even as
it was
erupting
“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not…
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
? Beryl Markham
A GPS says to you,
turn right, turn left …
You will get where you want to go,
but you won’t know where you are
— taf 06sep15
Monday
after the blizzard
God-awful
beautiful day
1/25/16
Mild winter day
Birds chattering up
A storm
1/28/16
whenever I see
“friendly reminder”
it seems to me
that the “friendly”
in “friendly reminder”
makes it not more friendly
but less friendly
than just “reminder”
that second after
u brush against s/t
when u’re not sure if it’s
going
to
fall
Flying over cumulus
stately procession
of Thanksgiving parade
baloons
Taking V to school 04jun16
fresh gobbets
of dog-doo
and happy kid hellos
2/9/17
snowstorm
silly birds in tree —
stop singing!
back yard one
green leaf peeping
thru the snow
3/14/17
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passing
stranger
umbrellas
kiss
5/22/17
if you
play back a bird’s song
slowly
is it
a blood-curdling
roar?
* * *
a bird’s song
played back
slowly
a blood curdling
roar
— Lofoten (gulls)
reminiscence
of old friends …
fake emails
14nov17
…..
The divine average
protects me
And the barking dogs
agree
There is no end to
poetry.
…..
mockingbird
at 5 am
delicate
thefts
Midday —
Kew Gardens —
Did errands
Now found old-fashioned diner
Surrounded by wrinkly old geezers
Glad I’m not …
Oh — wait—
8/31/17
Tonite
the moon is cut
so neatly in half
as
I get to slice
You get to choose
10/27/17
….
Tonite
I’ve sliced the moon
neatly in half
You get to choose
the classical music
at the Sky Club
is meant to be
soothing
therefore
it is irritating
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Why does the
classical music
at the Delta
Sky Club Lounge
make me
uneasy?
11/18/17
windy vortex
on CPW —
mathematics
of leaves
thrum
of metal bench
on CPW —
subway!
11/27/17
evening
from 52 st. #7 platform
furnace behind
skyscrapers
11/28/17
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