Where the ghost of ebbets fields
whispers echoes of yesterday
under the boardwalks of coney island

where the brownstones mark
the neighborhood, and
the accents define the boundary

where the people of color, no color, all colors
touching and making new colors
new world, old word, third world colliding
in a rainbow symphony of humanity

where dreams start, end, new stories, beginnings,
old stories, roots, tales, culture and myths
redefining, meshing and metamorphosis

the place of many languages
spoken over, within and part of English
creating new words, meaning and expansions

where American is found and
redefined in a cultural war
of collision and rebirth
effecting both old and new and
slowly moving towards a global
understanding of a new self

brookly is like the phoenix
in the destruction and rebirth