Peregrine falcons curl up and cry
Screeching from skyscrapers
Their forests died
Light forsaken
Rivers of people
Looking up
Gaping
Ballasts unburdened
Ships did make them
Walkways of mayhem
Tunnels and sewers
Steam underground
Best party brewers
Lifelines indoors
Nervous system endures
Asbestos air smothers
Speed wins undercover
Families hold tight
Their crumbling monasteries
Luxuries gliding on
Polluted soup estuaries
City of blight
City of might
Enter at your own risk
By the lady with the light
First published in Hudson Valley Writers Guild NOV 27, 2024
https://hvwg.org/2024/11/four-poems-amanda-niamh-dawson/