Central Park in Autumn, 2002

As a child
She watched a video
Her dad's favourite singers
Playing here

Simon and Garfunkel
(sounded more like a coffee shop than a band)
playing here
she'd seen it on a tv
in manchester
and now 
like an illusion
she was here
in a flash that took twenty years
she'd arrived
and what a time it was
it was a time
a time of innocence

she still remembered the words…
(that was the curly haired one
who sung about the rabbits)

he'd gone now
(and the short one with the guitar)
now
there were a few joggers
hot-dog stands
grass
and a few kids
playing here

As a child
She never realised
Daddy came all this way
To sit in an office
In a tall tower
He was just working

Of course
Later she'd understood
But rather than loiter with the tourists at ground zero
She preferred to remember him
Here
And what a time it was