The City and I, by Tiffany Babb

The City and I, by O. Louis Guglielmi (USA, Italy, b. Egypt) 1946

The City and I 
 
At the end of the surviving bides a moment 
of something different. I fall in love again
with the sliver of sky that unfurls behind my window,
and I see how the city is fragmented
between the skyscrapers and the billboards
and the stale air. Light and shadow
cleave my notebook in two. 
On the street, three disparate figures
fall still as if listening for something.

Tiffany Babb

Tiffany Babb is a New York based writer currently working towards her MFA in Creative Writing at The New School. Her poetry has been published in Argot Magazine and Third Wednesday. Her comics criticism has been published in PanelxPanel and Women Write About Comics. You can find more of her work at www.tiffanybabb.com