Gerald Wagoner – Big City Lit

A Selection from “A Month of Someday”

Gerald WagonerSummer 2021, Summer 2021 Poetry

by Gerald Wagoner When New York City initiated shelter-in-place, mid-March of 2020, to maintain my physical and mental health I continued my nightly walks. I would leave my Carroll Gardens home around 10 pm and walk to Brooklyn Heights, or to Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, or up to Prospect Park. The only other

Advice From a Dead Poet

Gerald WagonerWinter 2023, Winter 2023 Poetry

by Gerald Wagoner Be precise, elegant, describe forces and vectors.Learn the arcane alchemy of memory as catalystto imagination. The physics of the kinetic requireyou announce that windows are ablaze at sunset. Learn the arcane alchemy of memory as catalystto mountain vistas. The sky teaches the listenerto proclaim the windows at sunset ablaze, molten.The brazen glass