Tag Archives: graffiti
Found Tags
Fear ghosts, god, graffiti, guardian angels, and home.
Filed under Day Poems, Night Poems
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Yarn taggers and their measured screams along the overpass wake me before dawn. Or it’s the siren again. Leftover fireworks, a dumpster diver slams the lid, not gun shots. I just imagine the drama unfolding in a half-spun, sticky dream. … Continue reading
Into Shreds
The speakers are silent and scratched in their encasements. Videographers form a line around your ruin. This is no time for an apocalypse. These shadows tower over notes someone left on the ground. To be decoded or ghettoized as graffiti, … Continue reading
Filed under Morning Poems
If I Could Have Been Eva 62
Somewhere way uptown “Bird Lives.” Barefoot and in love, two dart through wet cement. Pen pals will be spawned. Stenciled broken promises, the Bronx could have come crumbling down. But it’s held on for the ride. When the last of … Continue reading
Filed under Overnight Poems
Graffiti Blues
Dark lipstick stains on the rim of a coffee mug, a juice glass, cigarette filter, napkin, so far from the neighborhood of your lips—they can’t be tagged.
Filed under Overnight Poems
Tiny Changes at the Last Minute
Accidents no longer mistakes. Nothing about buildings or fences, not another bridge, a scrap of graffiti rides out on the 11:45 train. Her net is small, her heart large. She just wants to take a closer look then let you … Continue reading
Filed under Night Poems
Tweening
Often scratched with a sharp object, the head is represented. Many lack noses. Do not require necks. Absent or ambivalent emotional expression has proven effective. The symbol for drinking does thicken for a ragdoll type. There has been much debate … Continue reading
Filed under Overnight Poems
Scratch (Day 2,426)
Graffiti isn’t graffiti unless she calls it. On an old water tower crowning an abandoned grain mill— perhaps. “Erin I love you” attaching itself to the “and then it got very cool” end of Ashbery’s poem on a pedestrian bridge—definitely. … Continue reading
Filed under Day Poems
