A Bushwick Villanelle
A clean sun shines over St. Nick’s and Harman street,
welcoming a spring of transformation and glee,
Mounds of snow a memory, forgotten the sleet.
Soon it’s sweltering, a summer we barely greet,
yet it brings a new chapter, an existence free:
a clean sun shines over St. Nick’s and Harman street.
Occupation is soon found, not missing a beat;
a routine as all leaves wither and leave the tree;
Mounds of snow a memory, forgotten the sleet.
As autumn cools, it’s despair, anger and deceit
outside; yet we subsist on love, and art, and tea;
a clean sun shines over St. Nick’s and Harman street.
Complacency broken by appalling results.
we steel ourselves, patience and wisdom are the key.
Mounds of snow a memory, forgotten the sleet.
This winter of the soul and earth, valiant we’ll meet,
together we stand, for our own we cannot flee.
A clean sun shines over St. Nick’s and Harman street.
Mounds of snow a memory, forgotten the sleet