Museum of the City of New York
Words of nature
Harnessed
Horses park
Where cars exhaust
The atmosphere
A picnic without ants
This city a museum
To be seen
By the trees who remark
There aren't enough stars
And wonder
Is there an ethical way to kill
A rat: What if the thing that makes me
Most happy is a vacuum cleaner
Or a silver settee on the sidewalk?
Wendy Schaffer received her BA from Clemson, PhD from Columbia, and MD from Cornell. She lives in New York City, where she reads and writes poetry and ministers to broken hearts as a cardiologist at a local hospital.