Nueva Primavera
Take a walk with me in the gold-plated
afternoon. I’m wearing my million dollar pants.
Let’s play hooky in the lime-green grass
Lined with lemon trees and sugar bushes.
Forget about refugees, riots and rousts.
Forget about the man with a gun on the A Train
Unleashing pandemonium when the train was packed.
Or the other man shot in Tompkins Square Park.
A man in coveralls is crossing the street
Carrying a mop and a see-through bag
Full of paper towels. I stop and I wait.
Observing the citrus joy spun from trees.
The light turns green. I envy you
And anyone who can seize the beauty from the breeze.
Come see Jenniferread at the Welcome to Boog City 18.5 Arts Festival on Sun. Feb. 16 at 2:20 p.m. at Block Hill Station in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Details here:
Welcome to Boog City 18.5 Arts Festival
Jennifer Juneau is a 2025 Acker Award recipient. She is the author of the novel ÜberChef USA (Spork Press) a full-length poetry collection More Than Moon, (Is a Rose Press) and a short fiction collection Maze (Roadside Press). She curates The Phoenix Poetry Open Mic at Shades of Green Pub every Monday evening in the East Village, NYC.