"bubbles, birds and Broadway"




small bubbles
rising
from the crowd at
5th and Broadway,
curves shot-through with
tiny rainbows - -


fat pidgeon
flattened
by a tire while
eating a napkin,
feathers shot-through with
colors of rainbows - -


shining bubbles
flying
up over traffic
caught in a draft,
sunlight quivering
within their rainbows - -


ruffled feathers
fluttering
wings bent skyward
in cold disbelief,
dirt dulling
sullied rainbows - -


distracting, purposeless
inanimate bubbles...


dumb, inept
dead pidgeon...


and none of this means a god-damned thing.







2003 by ATB