The Sunday Poet: Reza Tokaloo

     

Reza Tokaloo  ( His feet planted on the floor of the 1369 Cafe in Cambridge, Mass.)

 Tokaloo writes:

I think I am becoming more and more of a Somerville/Boston/city writer these days - after having lived and written in Middelboro-Plymouth area about cranberry bogs, the Nemasket River, Plymouth Harbor and southern Mass townies for years! I snapped a picture of my boots at the 1369 cafe near Inman Square.

 A Group of Young Girls on a Subway Train in Boston

                   A small group of

                   Young city girls on the

                   Red Line to Alewife:

                   Chirping,

                   Pecking,

                   Waddling,

                   Fluttering;

                   Bending and displaying

                   Their thin pale legs,

                   Folding and fanning

                   Their immaturity –

                   Overly perfumed.

                   They hide their

                   Indolence

                   Behind a public theater

                   Of high-pitched

                   Chatter and staged

                   agility.