Bryant Park Lunch-time in Spring
Susan Brennan
Jugglers. They’re everywhere.
Bright red pins flipping in the park.
See how easy it is to move everything?
How easy one thing replaces another?
We were the baby parade of yesteryear
Now we see: the window washer has not improved his art,
The begonias thrive, wreath around the library steps
The junkie looks for pot to ease his nerves
Pigeons cruise third story
And poop on the fashion industry
Black and blue wheels map the city streets
The young sink in their twitching beauty
Cell phoned ears and wired to a pulse –
What is it to be unhappily perfect?
Someone speaks Portuguese unaware
Of red arrows and steps right into the path
Susan Brennan is a poet, screenwriter and activist. Her poems can be found in her chapbooks and book, Blue Sirens (Dancing Girl Press), numinous (Finishing Line Press), and Drunken Oasis (Rattapallax Press) and various publications. She curates poetry programming (WanderWord) at Wilco’s Solid Sound Music Festival, MASS MoCA. With a circus-arts company, she co-produced and staged her poem Chromoluminarism about Georges Seurat’s final painting (RGB NYC). She has written film scripts, a one million hit plus award winning web-series, pitched film stories, and co-produced a short film, of which have premiered at Austin, Venice and Tribeca Film Festivals, as well as a screening at MoMA. Being a part of Lotus's Spring Clover Edition has her feeling sassy through and through. See what she’s up to at www.tinycubesofice.com.