Sunday, November 1, 2020

NY Images / Pre-Election Pandemic / Captions in Haiku

All photos by me.

My poetry may be bad,

but I blame the news.*

Times Square
Greetings from Ghost Town.
Times Square on a weekday night.
Crossroads of Covid.

St. Patrick's Cathedral
Church and State at dusk.
All await, with a prayer,
the dawn's early light.

Radio City
Radio City.
Anarchist Jurisdiction,
in living color.

St. Bart's Church
The children of God
seek marble sanctuary,
find cardboard refuge.

Steam on East 43rd Street
East 43rd Street,
relentlessly blowing steam,
stirs man's shuffling pace.

Grand Central Terminal
Suspended in March,
Grand Central in October,
returning to life.

Fruitstand
Venmo accepted.
The city re-forms. Because
true greatness is rare.

NYC skyline
Skyline at sunset.
As far as my eyes can see,
light blesses these souls.

Trump Tower
Vanishing tower.
The only place in New York,
surrounded by ghosts.

*- With apologies to Lana Del Rey.


Photos taken in October 2020. Follow me on Instagram.

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