Summons of the Big Apple (A poem by Gerlie Uy)

Summons of The Big Apple

By Gerlie Uy

5.15.24

I don't like to take a bite,

I said it once, and I can say it twice.

Just visit 

and catch the subway

with an altar of poetry inside;

Enter 

the mausoleum of Chagall

with his own tale of not liking any bite

in his masterpiece, The Village and I;

Just walk 

inside the cathedrals

of letters, 

words,

sounds,

trails of greens

and wonder 

when shall you bite.

Walk with strangers

until you eat with them;

Brave the seasons

until you are seasoned.

You don't like to take a bite,

You said it once, 

and you can always take it back twice.