Harp & Altar
POETRY
Roseanne Carrara

Andy Fitch
from Island
Geometry of the Lemon

Eileen G'Sell

Amy King

Jesse Lichtenstein

Stephen Sturgeon
Three Elegies for Landis Everson

G.C. Waldrep

Geometry of the Lemon
Andy Fitch

City College…scaffolded…or with buildings before it in scaffolds…limestone picking up a scaffold sheen…One sign says Haircuts / All Children $8 / $10 For Adults / Ask for Taura…Other women in Taura’s shop frown…stand waiting to cut hair…sometimes glance toward Straight From Harlem: Creative Outlet…which seems both open and closed

 

The boy at the corner straddles two posts like fire hydrants but flat on top…Edgecombe Ave. continues east past a woman selling martial-arts videos…A lemon slice drained of juice capsules retains skin dividing the wedges…I appreciate this geometry of the lemon…I’ve ignored…or not discussed…these men who mumble…face outwards…muttering fast about money