Times Square Thrills
Is there any place more thunderous,
more exciting, more chaotic than
New York’s Time Square one minute
before midnight on New Year’s Eve?
Thousands of loud voices count backward
everyone ready to blow party horns, toss
confetti, kiss someone, anyone. Me? I’m
desperate to blow my nose, as the bitter cold
for this tourist makes my sinuses explode.
As I reach into my pocket for a Kleenex, I
feel someone else’s fingers. I look up as the
man standing next to me hands over my wallet
walks away turning his head back, shrugging
his shoulders, as if to say, “Can’t blame a guy
for trying, right?” I pull out a tissue and blow.
Times Square Thrills by Diana Rosen | Lemon Poetry Reed Diffuser
Diana Rosen is a flash writer, essayist, and poet who lives in Los Angeles, California with a view of the largest urban green space in the U.S., the 4,200+acre Griffith Park. She is the author of “High Stakes & Expectations”, a hybrid of flash and poetry, and her poetry appears in both print and online journals and anthologies throughout the world including The Pangolin Review, Hotazel Review, Tiferet Journal, Rattle, and many others in Australia, India, Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, and the U.S. She is also the author of thirteen nonfiction books, many of which have been translated and published in Italian, Czech, Spanish, and Chinese. Topics include tea, coffee, ice cream, incense, and Social Security, among others. Her most recent fiction and nonfiction work appears on her portfolio site, www.authory.com/dianarosen Since 2009, she has been a docent of the Art Deco/Beaux Arts Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, built in 1926.
