Shattered Glass

collected pool tiles

and shattered glass

create a mosaic

on the surface

of Coney Island concrete

walls: the fishes of the sea,

and a dolphin most notably,

while thick and loud thin

men yell and grunt, slapping

a wallball off other,

less credible

slabs of concrete.

Pitch a

camera lens into the ring,

and you’ve got a lesson in

modernity

variations of course depending

on the thinness or the thickness

of the glass. A certain reference

book might illuminate

a rumination on the matter;

what is it that differentiates or separates,

conceptually

the concrete walls, pool tiles,

or even

wallballers boardwalkers street-talkers beach-flockers

for that matter.