Have You

Have you ever seen the city
not just eyeballed it, but riffed it
gotten under her steely dress?

Have you jammed the rhythm
the slick, slick dampness
of midnight tires in you?

Every edifice her musicality breathing
brick and mortar trumpet
the dizzy keyboard of her beading streets

Have you ever done the city, really
tasted her urban sprawl and intimacies
tested in her scroll and rolls?

Have you ever taken the city emptied
mealy and high in midnight haunts
Said her name was Dawn

At first light, she yawns
at first light she falls asleep in shuttered blinds
till again tonight, same time, same session




Unfinished