Stone-Tears

an entire city in tears singing jazz and rhythm and jazz and the blues, singing rhythm & jazz & the blues. an entire city in tears walking asphalt with hands held                like walkways between towers, twisting the wind into whirlwinds of sound & a red handkerchief flicking on the wind, whipping & lifting the sound of the wind & the necks of the crying                in one motion, one waving, swaying, lilting, loving manyperson, singing rhythm & jazz & the blues. an entire city in tears craning from windows & weeping, sweeping the dust dragged past the parks with their eyes.        with their eyes: dust-dragged