Each neighborhood has its perpetrators
The Butcher of Bay Ridge
The Elmhurst Executioner
The Gansevoort Girdler
The Mastermind of the Moshulu Massacre
The victims
Twenty-three hydrangea bushes
Twelve Chinese dogwoods
Seven roses of Sharon
Four sassafras
Three butterfly bushes
Two sycamore maple trees
My favorite magnolia
Winter-weary
We sit next to the Ghandi statue
And bemoan the destruction
Of our sanctuary
(The first poem written after a 25 year hiatus; published in 138journal.com)
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