Free Download - "Holding On' plus PDF of poetry
New York is vast.
Not vast like the tundra or the steppe.
Not vast like the Colorado sky.
Not vast like what I imagine Antarctica feels like.
But 32,000 people can gather together and still not everyone knows.
Or appears like they know.
Or looks at you when you enter the train with an enormous newspaper detailing
General Assemblies and debating Spokes Councils,
Interviews with Sanitation,
Cries for Oakland.
On the way to 5pm and you wonder what these are people are doing.
You wonder if anyone will show up.
You wonder what will happen.
How cold it is up there.
On the bridge.
Three hours later you’ve come and gone
From Foley Square to Crown Heights for poetry and apple pie
And back again.
Trying to make out a glimpse of people or police lights on the Brooklyn Bridge
As the Q train takes you safely to a Rodeo bar,
Where some French woman offers to buy you a sambuca
And you refuse.










