Minutiae (also Taxi)

 Minutiae

 

An insurmountable list of tasks

written in sequence—

each task tucked into

a space between two others:

squeezed into the interstices of living,

hardly noticed.

Prescriptions, groceries,

laundry, the post office,

furnace filters, phone calls,

chinking in the gaps, 

locking days together with Lego-like precision--

these ordinary tasks:

veins of gold in the granite of living.

 

 

 

 

Taxi

 

The yellow taxi-streams

Flow past islands

Of parks, museums, offices;

Past rock-bound towers of merchandise

Flashing neon-bright both day and night.

The city is a living thing,

Breathing traffic and smoke,

Pulsing with people

In a rhythm all its own.