...Nice Shirt...

nice shirt

yes, i notice

in silence

my words thoughts comments unseemly

to such strangers

my city colleagues commuting neighbors urban family

my subway friends

we never speak

but i see you

that sweater

your shoes

today's choices careful and hasty

diverse and fascinating

a million haircuts earrings backpacks watches

not to mention the myriad scarves and sunglasses and shoulderbags

rivers of fine fabric woven together with patches of

threadworn utility

magnificent and mediocre manicures clutching textbooks

novels walkmans newsprint

seated securely or holdtight the handrails swaying sweating tensing

shrinking laughing glaring reading listening

breathing each one to their hidden rhythms

a visual feast

the daily rainbow revolving relentlessly amid chaotic colors

i notice

my words unspoken

drowning in dreary sighs and melting with love

strangled inside this anonymity

i see you

.

.

.

~Faye Manning

[[..We.12.Jun.2002..]]