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Ghost hunters of cursed city. Read More
Although I never had the opportunity to eat breakfast here, this poem was inspired by my memories of the only time I actually visited the Windows on the World Restaurant, as well as beautiful essays I have read on the breakfast scene here. The only time I visited Windows on… Read More
A simple haiku I felt inspired to write in commemoration of 9/11 tomorrow. I guess like with so many people you will never forget where you were and who you were in that moment. I was a college student in Westchester County, NY. I had finished breakfast and was heading… Read More
This poem was inspired by memories of abstract sculptures that I would often see outside of my father's office building, when he worked for an insurance company in the 1980s and 1990s. Read More
This past August 14 marked the 20th anniversary of the famous New York City blackout of 2003. At the time, I was at my parents' home on summer vacation, a few weeks shy of beginning my senior year of college. It was a very surreal day, to say the least. Read More

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The Booksie Classic House

7-26-23 Read More
I was inspired to create this haiku after I got curious and googled my maternal grandparents' old Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (NY) address on Zillow. Their home, built circa 1902, was once a former tenement home in a working class neighborhood. Today, long after their passing and after their children have… Read More
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