Labor Day Morning
A thinly painted gray skyline over a light blue wash of sky. Distant car horns. Landmark skyscrapers. Burnt umber filled tenement buildings in single brushstrokes. Church bells. Silhouetted water towers. New Yorkers still asleep or out of town. Yellow ochre indicating trees + olive green for leaves. Canary yellow haze. Sun in viewers eyes. Sirens. A pigeon lands beside me. Air conditioners' wight noise. Garlic wafting from local restaurants. A plane overhead. Sky sound. Allow to dry. Noon.