Posted in celebration of national poetry month.  Today’s poem is a piece of haiku a reader sent in. He alerted us that for National Poetry Month, City Room hosted the New York City Haiku Challenge. You can find more haiku from the challenge here and Marie Howe, the state poet of New York’s picks here. Have a favorite poem you have read or written? Please email it to frank@mytownmatters.com.

cab driver Ahmed
used to be an engineer
American dream?

Millet Israeli, 43, Manhattan