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A Kind of Cloud
I’ve always felt a kind of cloud Surrounded me on all sides but one I could always escape by going down I could shrink and hide inside myself Behind closed lips and eyelids I could concentrate on denial Hide shock with laughter and disgust with a smile I never knew where to put my fingers… Read more
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Comes Love
Comes Loveis a jazz standard composed for the Broadway musical Yokel Boy, by Sam Stept, with lyrics by Lew Brown and Charles Tobias. The play debuted on July 6, 1939 at the Majestic Theatre on 44th Street and ran for 208 performances. The Phantom of the Opera is playing there now, and has been since… Read more
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CitySketch – Central Park Fence
“Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!” Kurt Vonnegut The Hallett Nature Sanctuary in Central Park is a world within a… Read more
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CitySketch – Central Park Bridge
“The most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.” Christo The southeast corner of Central Park park is dominated by a pond called The Pond and behind it, if you’re coming in from the east, the Hallett Nature Sanctuary. From the Central Park Conservancy’s website: Hallett Nature Sanctuary is one of… Read more
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