5th Avenue Sunrise

jampacked city streets that jangled and banged in the raucous jarring day shifted from business to boogaloo squeezing into moonlight party lights gin and lime-kissed gimlet sequined dress strutted in studded six-inch heels riveting flair provoking jive and jazzy nights to tame this lion of New York The bed swallowed the evening sucked-up in slumbered sobering snooze exhaling the drunkard’s stench while the warmth of whiskey and you next to me laid dreamy still popped up and propped up restless and ragged realizing the changing view through the dirt-stained window a pool of placid sunrise igniting colorless clustered towers bulwarks and girders scraping the sky out of the easterly clouds a creeping golden palette arose touching every crevice defining each silhouette your body stirs deliberate and slow rainbow hued eyes slenderly slitted catching the new-found light opening, tenderly revealing the landscape of your smile disclosing a cozy contentment waking with hello as I fall into your dream and a new day