Little N.Y. Poem

During Margaret 
Leng Tan’s 
performance of 
John Cage’s 4’33” 
in a Chelsea gallery, 
the passing cars, 
to my ears’ surprise, 
sound like rain. 

JOEL ALLEGRETTI

Joel Allegretti is the author of, most recently, Platypus (NYQ Books, 2017), a collection of poems, prose, and performance texts, and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing, 2016), a novella. He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015), which The Boston Globe called “cleverly edited” and “a smart exploration of the many, many meanings of TV.”