Risse Street Park/ The Bronx

Hello and welcome to a new episode of Picture Perfect City Radio.

This episode I’m talking about some of the experiences of autumn in New York

The connection between poetry and photography and the reading of new poem.

City Harvest

It’s autumn in the city

It’s a harvest of experiences

It’s the crunching of orange and rose colored leaves under your shoes momentarily blocking the sound of traffic from your ears

It is walks through postcard looking parks

Even better when someone is holding your hand 

It’s erratic weather forecasts 

Yesterday felt like spring, but now it doesn’t 

Less fresh fruit street vendors and more guys selling knit caps and gloves with weak thread counts

It’s small hot cups of coffee or tea to fend off any chills while waiting for the bus

Will it ever come?

Families and friends gathering for feasts to display gratitude as noisy radiators conduct their symphonies and strangers seek shelters in corners that become even more unforgiving as the calendar counts down 

Yesterday felt like spring, but now it doesn’t.

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