Roger
Angell In Central Park
My wife was game to change
direction when I wondered
out loud if you were the man
on the bench in the sun
minding his own business
beneath a Mets cap
contemplating yet another
major league season or
daffodils and Spanish bluebells
blooming on Cedar Hill
enjoying his solitude on a fine
spring morning much like
my long dead father glimpsed
moments before basking
shirt off in the Sheep Meadow
the sanctity of privacy
and nothing more I tell myself
hastening us across
the 79th Street Traverse
toward the teeming refuge
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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