fiddlehead ghosts march up 6th avenue
finger popping, shuffle dancing
two heads, no heads, heads on platters,
horns and coifs and garterbelts
men on stilts and six man puppets
mickey, butthead, popeye, captain crunch
star wars, star treck , everyone a star or wearing a star
or a scar, blood, scales, pus, bandages, crutches,
wheel chairs,roller blades, skate boards, flash bulbs,
tulle moth heads, felt bat heads,
feathers and sequins and slathers of grease,
while behind a thick blue serge of officers
a spangled child waves from the shoulders of her father,
fat legs clamped tight around his bald head.