New York City Shadormas*

        *Shadorma: 6 lines; 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllables per line

Times Square

Blazing lights

Broadway, Seventh Ave

Milling crowds

Break dancers

MAGA caps and shirts for sale 

America’s soul

           

Museum of Modern Art

Hordes in line

Phantasmagoric

Picassos

Hoppers, Klees

Pointillists, surrealists

My head is spinning

The Subway

Blasting forth

Like an angry beast

Wheels screech

Lights flicker

Forty-second, Fifty-ninth

Hold tight, eight more stops  

 Metropolitan Opera

Grand gala

Don Giovanni

Mozart’s riff

Love and lust

Voices soaring to the sky

Don Juan burns in Hell

Oculus

Soaring wings

of the dove of peace 

Tragedy 

Inferno

Oculus signals rebirth

Strength and resilience 

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fifth Ave Met

Great Hall, breathless crowd

Dutch masters

Genji tales

Every wing a masterpieces

Visitors bewitched

Fiddler on the Roof

Tradition

Tevye and Golde

In Yiddish

Taboo loves 

Pogroms, the village destroyed 

Audience weeping  

Eléa

Eighty-fifth

New Greek restaurant 

Dim white lights

Gentle chat 

Whitefish, pasta with mushrooms 

Overcome with bliss   

Bloomingdale’s Department Store

Fairyland

Seven floors of swag

Preppy staff

Plastic smiles

Whisper “buy buy buy” to all

Somehow I resist 

Taylor

Handsome coat 

German Shepherd prince

Obeys Bruce

Calm and cool

Races to his dog walker 

Smarter than a fox