Skeletal tails twisting toward marble ceilings
Bear claws strung on straps of deer leather
Human skulls crystallized with eternal grins
Landscape altering meteorites, resting cold
Joy and panic in children’s voices
Wandering aimless into stranger’s legs
Hoards of them, parents explaining
Totem imagery and Natural Selection
The blood scent of subway handrails
Cackling teenagers through thundering hollows
An old woman, standing as doors spread
To squint for the name of each station
And outside, removing my sweatshirt
Vacant trenches of construction fenced in plywood
College kids in shorts with shakes and fries
Bare branches reaching awkward in all directions
Unpurchasable stacks of books on folding tables
Jay-walking corner mobs, homicidal taxi-cabs
Craning necks and idling police cruisers
Ornate golden doorknobs in window cases
Distracted texters and missed signals
Numeral streets, descending by the dozens
Shirtless shoulders, bathroom lines, cameras,
Jazz trios, hats filled with dollar bills
Gatherings on blankets, wiffle ball, baby strollers
Mothers with tattoo sleeves, couples making out
Universes away from yesterday’s winter
And the sting of bare hands on frozen steel
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