BACK TO NEW YORK FROM PHILLY
by Linda Lerner
on a voice flat lining days
across stock options numbers
reaching toward infinity
I’m riding thru a business man’s America
the flattest country I’ve ever seen--
modern technology has created
what the prairie must have once
looked like to westerners a century or two ago
cleared of horses sagebrush
not even a saloon or knockdown fight
not one human visible
Linda Lerner is the author of twelve poetry collections, the most recent being Living in Dangerous Times (Pressa Press) and City Woman (March Street Press). Recent poems appear in Tribes, Onthebus, The Paterson Literary Review, The New York Quarterly, Home Planet News, and Van Gogh’s Ear. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 1995 Andrew Gettler and she began Poets on the Line, the first poetry anthology on the Net for which she received two grants for the Nam Vet Poets issue. Its anthology remains on line although new publication ceased in 2000.