Contents
One
August Morning, Upper Broadway
The Light
How Fortunate the Boy
Q&A: Red Red Rose
Manahatta
The First Snowfall
The Glory of Cities
Bangladesh: The Driver
Guyana: So Nice
Times Square
Dry Hours: A Golden Shovel Exercise
Two
The City Crocuses
Cinco de Mayo
Biking to the George Washington Bridge
Ghazal: The Minimum Wage, 2014
Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Ghazal: O Clear Night
Four Men around a Card Table, Columbus & 97th
A Walker in the City
Acrostic: All You Need Is Love
Waiting for the Light
For Once, Then, Something
Three
Ghazal: America
Afghanistan: The Raped Girl
White Morning
Ghazal: Not Even There
Q&A: Insurance
Making a Meal of Them
The World According to Capa
Are You My Cousin
The Battlefield: A Lyric
Children’s Blood
Temblor
Four
Alphabetical Flash
The Liberal Arts
The Common Crow Fibonacci
The Redeemed World
To Charlie, on His Poetry
China in the Twenty-First Century
Underground
Ghazal: America the Beautiful
Q&A: Reality
Notes
Acknowledgments