In Your Own Words: ‘Leaf Blower’

Those of us writing through Dave Malone’s Tornado Drill for my 3-week course In Your Own Words are sharing poems.
Here’s mine for session 4, set above Rockefeller center.

 

Top of the Rock

Seventy floors above, worries

for you

I exit through the gift shop

tsking at tchotchkes

when I spy

a deck of playing cards

and I want them for you

who brought cards on every trip

made me play Go Fish when we missed our plane

we’ve missed every plane,

boat, taxi, gondola,

elevator ascending above the Rainbow Room,

spaceship.

See my selfie above the city?

I looked for you everywhere.

–Megan Willome