Husband New York Poems

NEW YORK NEW YORK AGAIN
When I go to the Service as soon as I get up
I listen to Frank Sinatra's song
“New York New York”
The city...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Early morning, Central Park
And captured on his phone,
My husband saw a turtle,
On the pathway, all alone.

Its shell had lovely markings
But what made the scene unique
Was...

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I’m sleeping in the living room*
Which shares a common wall
With my next-door neighbor’s bedroom;
Shouldn’t bother me at all.

But she must be hard of hearing
‘Cause her...

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The Passing of Fear
A mark on the door…

It is so quiet here, 
I believe that I can hear a snake, 
meandering across the dirt road,...

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“9/11”


I have seen the Sword of Anguish
As it seared its blinding wrath across the faces of millions.

I have tasted the salt of their tears
Released in...

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There is a young woman I met near Times Square;
She's five-foot-eleven with lovely brown hair.
We were both buying tickets at the kiosk that's there
For a...

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I like the way you walk Mademoiselle
You do it like you do and do it well.
This Frenchman though a foreigner admires
that wiggle wen you walk-like...

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Got a notice in the mail
That made my blood run sour,
Announcing “City of New York
Versus Ilene Bauer.”

Inside the envelope there was
A 50 dollar fine
With photos...

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She woke up late that morning
From the fight the night before
She had argued with her husband
About what, she wasn't sure

He left for work some time...

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