58th st / 57th st

5.32 miles

the sights and senses of this walk: quite a bad ankle tan; no line outside magnolia’s bakery, a rarity; a piano store; frat boys; an invisible beard; furious biking; a woman turning in the other direction, ‘o my god there’s so many bugs here’; a woman peering at her phone, her glasses just holding on to the edge of her nose; a door lying on the sidewalk; stack’s bowers rare coin and currency gallery; spilled baby carrots; a russian tea room; carnegie hall; a rush of extreme cold pouring out of nordstrom; a person on the sidewalk intently reading the newspaper.

Cranes in August
by Kim Addonizio

They clutter the house,
awkwardly folded, unable
to rise. My daughter makes
and makes them, having heard
the old story: what we create
may save us. I string
a long line of them over
the window. Outside
the gray doves bring
their one vowel to the air,
the same sound
from many throats, repeated.