Mountain poems

Shivering Mountain

move
with taxi cabs
wind past office workers

firemen start blazes in trashcans
sleeping cops bust bums
in flower beds

old men hustle chess in the park
as kids skate on water
roller blade to dawn with car horns

clerking shift-footed
in to the cracks on the sidewalk
dance and strut the night away

with the hookers of 33rd
down with the Irish bar drunks
brown paper shacked: shimmer-shake

toast mothers in speeding cars
sink in to potholes and flashbacks
as flowers sing to stop signs

flash to read
turn to walk
trip and race

dealers on main and fifth
go with the motion
pick pocket and split

past office workers
jumping cabs for quarters
and dimes