New York City subway riders are often on a hurried, harried singular mission to get from Point A to Point B as quickly as possible. During the ride, we cocoon in motion amidst a pressing throng of humanity who are variously occupied with eye avoidance, sleeping, reading, texting, manspreading, panhandling, decibel-deafening earbud listening, and sighing. […]
Poetry
A Poem In Your Pocket
If prose in all its forms is the basic literary diet on which we humans feed, poetry is the fine wine, the crème brûlée, the caviar that makes the meal memorable. We need novels and non-fiction, magazines and newspapers, reports and essays to communicate, to tell our stories real and fanciful, but in poetry we use ever-so-carefully chosen words to express our hearts.