Four years ago
April 21, 2020
No planes
In the sky
No people
On Vanderbilt Avenue
Alone
Same today
2024
Afternoon
April cold
Gray clouds
A pale silver sun
Over a bankrupt luxury condo
A few people on the sidewalk
Four years ago
None
Me
Out for a walk
Alone
We survived that crisis
Fifteen thousand years ago
The Ice Age
A wall of ice
A mile high
Over Clinton Hill
Homo erectus
Survived
We will survive the now to come
World population
2050
500 million
I will be one of us
97
In Thailand
With my children
Grandchildren
Great-grandchildren
My wives
Rice paddies
Green running west to Burma.
No planes in the sky
Only the stars.