Sunday, December 20, 2020 - City facades: Hudson Yards, as seen from West 41st Street.

The smoke stacks from the skyscrapers that make up Hudson Yards blended with the grey clouds that stretched over Manhattan this afternoon, the city’s last day before the 2020/21 Winter Solstice. The blue glass held strong and still amongst the orange construction barriers and lines, which stood beneath the yellow lights, barely visible before the arrival of the night’s sky. And the cranes ––– tall and slender –––– as cranes are apt to do, lifted steel, lifted glass, and lifted concrete / forever upwards / and always closer and closer / toward the sky.