Clothes slip away as the dew point rises
Tanned limbs exposed by scandalous shorts
Eliciting sideways smiles
on young men’s faces
Ray Bans and messy buns
taking the ferry to Governor’s Island
to find your spot on the lawn. Food truck delicacies
perched precariously in your lap
Joining the shiny masses at
Bryant Park, Coney Island, Yankee Stadium
Bringing a chair and a book to the
illimitable lines awaiting the bard
Subways become sudatory chambers of armpits and elbows
A slow dance of awkward intimacy
Side street hydrants sprinkling
ephemeral relief
Street fairs from Morningside Heights to Washington Square
Double decker buses snapping and waving down Broadway
Central Park erupting with a cacophonous parade
All of humanity in six square miles
I love it! Life in art. Art in words. Words in action.