Roberta Curley
New York, NY
Roberta Curley has lived in the West Village for the past 32 years. For much of that time Roberta worked as a senior administrative aide for the New York Police Department, and she has volunteered as a reader and sighted guide in the community. A voracious reader and dedicated journal writer, she draws her inspiration from her love of nature and from her interaction with, and fascination for, her fellow New Yorkers. DYLAN Is it the darkness I'm so afraid of The harsh bleak blackness of the moonless sky or my own clicking brain like a time-bomb nervously twitching, set to explode? Does daylight stave off incorrigible fears? Does the bogeyman exist only in darkness? Perhaps he lurks unseen soaking up sunlight and UV rays by day gathering electric charges used to terrify night crawlers I walk with terror in each step till my eyes fixate on the White Horse Tavern windows Brilliant fluorescent neon crimson lights beckon Budweiser, Guinness, Coors… I conjure up Dylan Thomas's spirit inside hoist one up to fear Together my lone companion of the night and I -Roberta Curley