OpenLinkNight: Riddles to Answers & Riddles (#NYC)

It is ugli fruit,
but only in comparison

A man with a machete
size knife, carves the rind
in quarters,
juice pooling beneath
and across his sticky fingers
that ply the pulp heart from within,
sharing a word and taste
with those on the sidewalk
from his cardboard box pulpit

taste & see, he smiles as he works
and that is enough, in the moment
we pass

Following the cryptic napkin
map, drawn by the Chinese man
who, even now, stands on the corner,
waving his arm & calling a-cross the crowd,
having left all his other customers
to ensure we make it
to the subway

The only strangers here
are those silent
in their own world

taste and see, i say
folding these last memories
of the city into my pocket
along with the map

To one day follow back.

OpenLinkNight @ dVerse Poets - time once more to get all poetic. Joe Hesch is tending the bar tonight, so come ready to sling some verse. Doors open at 3 pm EST.

The closing moments of my visit to New York a little over a week ago. In her OpenLinkNight poem today, Claudia is writing about the same moments, so check hers out as well.