Sit A While, by Siv Cedering [on Romare Beardon's Black Manhattan]
SIT A WHILE
[On Romare Bearden's collage,
Black Manhattan]
Sit a while.
What do you hear?
A bird? A bus? A baby's cry?
The shouting of a boy?
For joy?
Leaves rustling?
Trains rattling?
Skateboards rolling?
A boombox blaring?
A mother calling?
The droning of a car?
Or ten -
traveling far, then home again,
like your thoughts
as you sit
with nothing much to do but
contemplating it?
SIV CEDERING (1939-2007)
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