Corner View: Cityscapes

27 May 2009 Filed In: all the rest, corner view


A week before my daughter was born, I was beginning to get a twinge of panic.  We were having her way out in deep, dark Brooklyn, an hour’s drive if you hit full rush hour traffic.  For most women that long drive in the back of a cab might be enough to worry about, but I had a real worry that she would actually be born in that cab.  My mother’s first labor had been under an hour and all of her subsequent labors had been similarly speedy.  This, much more than the pain of it, sprang into my mind one afternoon toward the end of Mira’s inside time.

While I was mired in this worry, steeped in a bit of my own darkness, I happened to look out the window.  A rainbow hovered just above the buildings.  Never have I seen a rainbow either before or since then in New York.  This picture is of that moment.  It is certainly not the most technically beautiful cityscape, but it is my dearest.

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