Over the brow of the harbor, the city draws its many breaths, in the low boroughs, shadows pour their cistern waters across the tenements, memories that were mine are redrawn in the lines on a crosswalk, in the steam circumlocutions of the vendors carts smashing over pavement cracks, children’s laughter blasting back from walls I drew letters upon in my sojourns, long washed and redrawn, these maps of discovery,
New face, drawn to this magnetic titan’s rough embrace, be welcomed here, over the steel ribbons span, to the islands of manicured lawns, of concrete blasted with a fever of some graffiti scrawl, tagged by a Rembrandt vandal before the grind pulls them back into its tidal veins,
Over the mother of the harbor, long washed mint green from the passage of centuries, salt shear pulls across the world its tireless comb
Daniel Christensen is a poet and author of speculative and high fantasy fiction. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including SpecPoVerse International, Trollbreath Magazine, Book XI, and Harrow House. His poem “Love Poem on Theme by Whitman” was featured in the live stage performance of Open Dance Project’s 1968. He received the Editor’s Choice Award from The Last Stanza Magazine for his poem “Brooklyn.” His short story “Automata” was published by The Blooming Onion Literary Magazine. Additional publications include Clepsydra Literary and Art Magazine, Florida Bards Anthology 2025, Lucky Lizard Journal, and Lunchbreak Review, among others.
