Wyatt Esther And The Burning Christmas Tree

Wyatt And Esther And The Burning Christmas Tree

Manhattan in the East 90s

The palisades of the Park rising towards 110^th Street

Starbucks on 96^th and Madison

The Episcopal retreat’s library on 95^th

Names like Madison, Lexington….Mulholland

Brisk Fall air

The earthy color palate of the leaves in October and November

We’d walk across the park to the Upper West Side

Such a foreign land to us

We were foreign there too,

Strangers

Tourists

Exploring

The Whole Foods on 97^th and Columbus

It supplied us a Thanksgiving

You were right, we never did holidays Together (Beyachad)

We couldn’t hold it together long enough,

Not like those leaves who wait every year for

October

And November 

Copyright Oren Peleg 2012