AND THIS

I referenced the selection from "New York Notes (2004)"—a serial poem in the last section of my last book ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY: Poems 1960-2017, that was written over the course of a year chronicling my walks around Manhattan—on the phone today with a friend, and he immediately read these lines from it:

The backs of women's

Knees stil intrigue

Me, especially in

Winter when they seem

To wink at you from

Between the tops of

Boots and hems of

Skirts or dresses, I

Want to bless them

With gratitude and kisses—

(C) 2018 Michael Lally