Steve Brisendine's poem "New York Which is Not Really New York: Dream I"
Photo © Alan Hainkel Steve Brisendine is a writer, poet, occasional artist, and recovering journalist living and working in Mission, Kansas. He is the author of two collections from Spartan Press: The Words We Do Not Have (2021, nominated for the 2022 Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award), and the upcoming Salt Holds No Secret But This (2022). He was a finalist for the 2021 Derick Burleson Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Flint Hills Review , Aji , Modern Haiku, and other journals/anthologies. New York Which is Not Really New York: Dream I North of Central Park, the city slopes upward toward Harlem; its streets and sidewalks are empty, and someone has taken down all signs. I wait for som...