Photography © Ira Joel Haber
A Shot in Brooklyn
The sun goes up.
They sit on the rusty fire escapes
and smoke reefers.
Laundry and sighs on the wires,
hung there like shot birds.
Everywhere is nowhere here.
The sun goes down.
Their black faces are looking up
as the smoke is clearing over Manhattan.
40oz. of freedom is all they can afford.
And the night rolls up its dirty sleeves,
singing silly songs of success.
Peycho Kanev is the author of 12 poetry collections and three chapbooks, published in the USA and Europe. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies.
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe and he has had nine one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum,The Albright-Knox Art Gallery & The Allen Memorial Art Museum. Since 2006 His paintings, drawings, photographs and collages have been published in over 300 online and print magazines. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Creative Artists Public Service Grant (CAPS) two Pollock-Krasner grants, two Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grants and, in 2010, he received a grant from Artists’ Fellowship Inc. in 2017 & 2018 he received the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA artist-in-residence grant.