#cat

mild winter night---
a street cat
acts up

#points

January Saturday night---
Empire State Building
red head points out

#river

Hudson river---
snow on the shore rocks
and seagulls

#sunrise

sunrise---
I get over
my January blues

#now

after winning Iowa---
Obama is now
black enough

#black

Big Apple Winter---
the wearing
of black

#smoke

very cold day---
a chimney
keeps on talking

#blue

blue sky---
looking through
an iced window

#cold

January bitter cold---
she
hugs me

#work

January started---
the silence
of going back to work

#rat

the cat sniffs
a spent firecracker---
soon comes the brown earth rat*

*name of the Chinese new year

#rice

new year's day---
there is rice
on the sidewalk

#new

new year's eve---
a man pisses
on fifth avenue

#snowman

last day of the year---
the snowman
is all gray