Dreams
(for Robert Hayden) if they ask for us tell them we are out with the dancers or walking to mars with our hands in our pockets or anything but don’t…
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REMEMBERING JACK LEWIS
When I think of you even as a scrawny kid in Londonderry razzing the British in a street rally there is always the crown of the sun a few inches…
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Politician
Politicians promising through their lips Issues and answers Giving us all the lip Spreading to the people like cancers Crooked suits on the hill Homeless in the street Doctors and…
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EPA
The disintegration is real. We step back but everything happens anyway, the flash floods distending so rapidly they can never be accused of political motives, and then the traffic grows…
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At the Water’s Edge
At the water’s edge a lovely shade of red three leaves that bled as autumn raised its head And then came doubt of all those conforming creeds that men believed…
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POMPEII
Sculpted in death, models on display, this mute cast shows how it was to die. The terror they knew is engraved on their faces, their prays canceled in a pyroclastic…
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OCCUPY USA
I cannot listen to the thousand thousands. Their in-unison roar invades my Eustachian tubes like barbarian hordes, their sense of honor rattles the bones of bygone heroes with ludicrous laughter…
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At His Graveside in East Berlin
I say you were a beast of burden touched in your brain by the most unequivocal hardships, rock bottoms and abrasive insects with stingers as lethal as the points of…
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Blue
Blue is my favorite color True is my favorite word Mankind is my brother Faith is my sword Blue is cool Blue is true Blue is a swing set I…
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CHAOS AND THE COMMON MAN
Drinking morning coffee. Out my front window I watch a man standing in the rain— stolidly cleaning rainwater off his car’s windshield. Stoically he disregards the weather as traffic flows…
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