Window & workday: I want to say bad shadows

A poem by Dan Alter.

Shadow-cast, dust-coated, fog all over cranes

& concrete eyes. A skyline big money made.

Everyone’s meaner than me in here, smile

when they say a knife. Another hour I feel 

 

like nothing in a high-rise ceiling, dust-

coated twilight. Throw out bubble-wrap, gather 

gray wires to splice. Fog city, rectangles scale 

into a big-money sky. Matt tells everybody

 

he can’t find his pliers. High rise like nothing

I feel, listless bubble-wrap how many times

an hour, I feel like shadows, now we hear

how he found them. Meaner, into a big-money 

 

sky, shadows cast. Windows streaked. Cranes

& rectangles. Gray wires all over fog.