Expectant

   
Expectant

We've learned that there's a snowstorm headed
this way, towards our city.
I walk the streets and find a haze –
a mist, that's settled in.

The city waits, expectant, tense.
We've had disasters – one
of human making, others wrought
by Nature's caprices.

******
 
This morning, by the steps of City Hall,
our newest mayor stood.
He there declared the ending of an age
and boldly heralded a new.

The city waits, expectant, for the storm.
It also waits for more.
There's hope, however timorous, that should help
as citizens shovel out from snow.
 
2013 January 1, 11:00 pm
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Bill De Blasio's Ceremonial Inauguration as Mayor of New York City 

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