Frederick Feirstein Verse-Virtual 2016 July

July 2016

My latest book of poems Dark Energy was published in 2013 by Grolier's Established Poets Series. The fairytales in it have been done on stage in NYC and will be done again in a production I'm directing. One of my three musical dramas is about to tour Europe and will come into NYC for a seven-week run at 59E59 THEATER.

   As Time Goes By

       That was a golden age in which we lived.
       Each day was summer, God was everywhere,
       In every molecule of New York City air
       When we were young and just believed in us.
       That was a haloed age in which we lived,
       Late twentieth-century summer, love was everywhere.
       I’d stop beside you on our walks to stare
       At you, buying a peach, climbing a bus’s stair.
       And there were buts, but always and & and
       Sitting in Central, doodling each other’s hand,
       And I recited poems, my simple fictions
       In meter rhyme and New York City diction.
       As dusk drew near we’d hold a darkening kiss.
       When you’re distressed, you must remember this.