{"id":7418,"date":"2020-08-07T09:49:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T09:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2020-08-07T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T09:49:05","slug":"a-wintry-postcard-of-manhattan-in-motion-a-poem-by-richard-l-weissman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/a-wintry-postcard-of-manhattan-in-motion-a-poem-by-richard-l-weissman\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wintry Postcard of Manhattan in Motion. A Poem by Richard L Weissman"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nLast night, this homeless needle-eyed buzzard
\nwith time-wearied, deep-chiseled features
\nbleak hovered shivering relentless
\nround warmth of the 86th Street Station’s Lotto shop.
\nHis blue cold, street-grimed fingers
\nprinted paper coffee cup and shivering kaiser roll
\nso I gifted him my old black winter coat.
\nThis morning he nodded mid makeshift hovel,
\nin under twelve hours,
\nmy coat was transfigured,
\ntailored to perfect fit his junk-torn world.
\n 
\nThe downtown 4 train floats effortlessly this morning,
\nfast neath black plaster peelings of ceiling,
\never winding above rat poisoned third rail tracks
\nall warps into backdrop as downtown mountains up.
\nCrescendoing dark scent of hungry ghosted greed
\nas drab suited Wall Streeters hibernate (like bears)
\ntill New Year’s in.
\nSimultaneously, this life-worn Euro-trashed chic
\neyes me with contemplative melancholy,
\nher scar marred beauty
\ncracked mirroring
\nour Maiden Lane drama
\nof bleak mediocrity.
\n 
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\nBio:
\n <\/p>\n

Richard L Weissman has written fiction since 1987.
\nIn 2000, his theatrical play, \u201cThe Healing\u201d was selected by Abdingdon Theatre for a staged reading Off-Broadway.
\nRichard is the author of two Wiley Trading titles. His second book, Trade Like a Casino was selected as a Finalist for the 2012 Technical Analyst Book of the Year Award.
\n 
\nIn 2016, Mr. Weissman completed his historical novel in the tradition of magical realism, \u201cGenerations\u201d.
\n 
\nIn 2020 his poem, \u201cMountain Bird and Loquat\u201d was selected as the grand prize winner of the Florida Loquat Literary Festival.
\n 
\nIn addition to hosting, \u201cIn Our Craft or Sullen Art\u201d \u2013 a biweekly poetry radio talk show, Richard participates in live spoken word events throughout the U.S.<\/p>\n

 
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> at Artvilla.com<\/a> ; his publications include
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\nAll the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>, Cartoon Molecules<\/em>, Next Arrivals<\/em> and Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems<\/em>, collected poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande\u00b4s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a> and the recently published Tesserae<\/em> <\/a> <\/u>, a translation of Carmen Crespo\u00b4s Teselas.
\n 
\nYou may visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a><\/p>\n

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  Last night, this homeless needle-eyed buzzard with time-wearied, deep-chiseled features bleak hovered shivering relentless round warmth of the 86th Street Station’s Lotto shop. His blue cold, street-grimed fingers printed paper coffee cup and shivering kaiser roll so I gifted him my old black winter coat. This morning he nodded mid makeshift hovel, in under … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[808,796,366,401,43,909],"tags":[18,136,874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7423,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions\/7423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}