Brooklyn Haiku
Gowanus
Elevated skyway
A crane loading crushed cars onto a barge
The hush of ocean surf
Autumn Avenue
Monticello's Arboretum
White-knuckled fear
Sing-song three-year old
Visitation Place
Sludge in Gowanus Canal
Ominous thunderheads
Tarnished Lady of Liberty
Gravesend Neck
Log jam of river barges
Skinny white cat in field of Queen Anne's Lace
Carroll Gardens' hearts on fire
Owls Head Court
Rimbaud as a ten-year old
17th c. warned-out vagrants
Black jeans and blue raincoats
Joralemon Street
Golden Dragon bucket brigade
Mouth of Manhattan Bridge agape
Dumplings, friends, full moon
Old Love Lane
The waterfall at the Brooklyn Bridge
Kayaking eighth graders
An army of red crabs
Cortelyou Road
Coffee, books, democracy
The bewitching waves
Blueberry pancakes, twig tea
Mermaid Avenue
Looming Democratic landslide
Ear bone on cracked sidewalk
Encyclopedia of lies
Red Hook Lane
Tin-type Napoleonic soldier
Butterflies up Third Avenue
A sea of sore throats
Force Tube Avenue
Raucous narrative (laughing gull)
Pall of sleep over train travelers
Purple flowers in the snow
Anchorage Place
Squalor of lost thoughts
Fatty at Coney Island
Gravesend clouds pulling me back
Oriental Boulevard
Brooklyn street names
German archeologists
Some cum on cobblestones
Marcus Garvey Boulevard
Lost in haiku
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
I miss my stop
Pig Town Lane
I look up from a book
A plane lands on the Hudson
Like it was meant to
Coney Island Avenue
Somali pirate coast
Flakes of snow
Loss of consciousness
Ocean Parkway
Winter parakeets,
Sirens of the city
All heads turned towards Coney Island Hospital
Prospect Park
Farm to table people
Uzbek chess game
Steam heat and bus groans
Church Street F Stop
A bevy of cement mixers
An abandoned blue jaguar
Pan flutes madly piping
Greenwood Cemetery
A grove of weeping willows
Cracked, overturned urns
A sense of peace and sorrow
Flatbush Avenue
A million tons of garbage
An abattoir for prize cattle
Dinghy, boy and fishing bob
Eastern Parkway
Uber chariot on fire
Persian bust of swimmer
Fifty types of roses
North Berry Street
Tae Kwon Do master class
Glint of light on the river
Two kids, roller-blading home
Mill Basin Blues
Nesting egrets in the fog
Windmill, shepherd, hog
Salamander on a log
Brownsville
Magyars walking over ice
Black Panther Party party
Pushcart through New Lots
Cadman Plaza
Student driver stalled
Stalls of Morgan horses
Shakespeare at the library
Newtown Creek
Fresh Direct deliveries
Glue factory stench
Sailboat, still silent
Blissville
Reading Richard Wright
Bike spill on tarmac
Hands covered in creosote
Sunset, Sunset Park
Ten taco trucks
One eye on Staten Island
Tears, a girl’s trust
Jamaica Bay
A paradise for glossy ibises
A hundred years of silt, sand
A coconut floats by, all the way from Mauritania
Greenpoint
I race the mackerel clouds
Coffee smells sift East
A man is reading a newspaper
Brooklyn Bridge
Traffic jam on Roebling
Snowfall from Lake Erie
Eerie caterwaul in DUMBO
Fort Greene
A birth on Cranberry Street
History of Western Civilization
Shady Elms, river breeze
Park Slope
Geese on the frozen Hudson
Mid-air collision, 1960
Three witches’ brew
East River Slip
Rowboats, shrimpers, shallows
Good weather for a swim
Barrels line the bulkheads
Vinegar Hill
Belgian chocolate stands
Steam from a Con Edison plant
Waterfront sea shanties
Canarsie Pol
Ecstasy for tiny owlets
Cobblers and kooks keep out
A dandelion in the grass
Flatlands
A Port-au-Prince hair boutique
The city bus to Seagate
A prayer rug facing Mecca
Clinton Hill
Children crowd a roundabout
A saxophone laments
A fox runs up the alley
Cypress Hills
A German brewery is closing
Dish rags on a clothesline
Crowds gather for a song
Beverly Road
Fried momos for breakfast
Social democrats jogging
Brooklyn College thunderstorm
Sheepshead Bay
Sunday noon on the high seas
Lifeline for Uruguayans
Ocean Avenue barbeque
Cobble Hill
Four Harley Davidsons idling
Thanksgiving Meals-on-Wheels
Ask the belle of Brooklyn
Dead Horse Bay
A pow-wow at the airport
Summer bullfrogs croaking
A woman nods to her beau
Crown Heights
Two men walking and talking
A mob of tricycles on Empire
Sullen Spanish seamstresses
Eastern Parkway
Museum, heist, getaway, crash
Life in the carpool lane
Sodden teens after downpour
Brighton Beach
Russian lumpfish caviar
A toe in salty undertow
Three ladies in slim bikinis
Red Hook
Gantry cranes, Atlantic Basin
Blues in Buttermilk Channel
Navy seal on Governor’s Island
Bath Beach
PS 163, Bath Beach school mates
A nurse meets her mom for lunch
Humpbacks near the Verrazano
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