Skyscrapers
No Barriers
Skyscrapers
No one to turn to except me, no way
Out Jersey barrier arrows down pinning
My right shoulder in dissent out crying
Liberty on left across New York Bay.
Tower vaulting the heights of Manhattan
In my fiery mood, ponder walk city
Politics Washington sobriety
As dreams sweep over parched fields of cotton.
Like swallows searching out from heat and cold
Perch warm and cool build mud nests, dry twigs, pegs
Saliva glued, mother swallows lay eggs,
Over canopies and soil and grass load
Sun’s energy critters to hatched twitters
As dreams sweep over city skyscrapers.
©NDR 7. 17. 2016
"Skyscrapers" - refers to migrant workers, in this poem, escaping the poverty of
a harsh life pounding the streets of skyscraper cities to provide basic decent
necessities of life for their families. Dream, their only means, held high to make
this a reality. "Tomorrow" is not a given to them. But like the swallows they
migrate long distances, endure and provide.
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