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Christmas, 1989A six-pointed starin the eyes of a Polish childlighting her first shabbas candle fading into a painted cross on the Berlin Wall gnarled Lithuanian hands at prayer Romania’s solemn triumpha dictator’s statue ground into dust (SINTI-What?)*Before the flickering screen…
I talk to rockssometimes they answer double-voicedas a woman in love taking leavein roars of jade.Carnelian promises an end to bleakthrough secret eyes of malachiteI look toward obsidianto absolve my dreaming.The jasper-red stonein the gizzard of swallowsheals the moon-touchedthe poor…
Amsterdam, 1986 How the fruit lay at your feethow you dressed the winecut green beansin a lacy networkwound to the drumrusset arm hairsin the candlelightwe ate pom and fish ricewith a fork and spoon. A short hard rainand the moon…
The cockroachwho is dyingand the womanwho is blindagreenot to noticeeach other’s shame.
17 luxury condominiums electronically protectedfrom criminal hunger the homeless seeking a night’s warmthacross from the soup kitchen St. Vincent’s Hospitalrazor wire covering the hot air grates. Disrobed needshrieks through the nearby streets.Some no longer beg. a brown sloe-eyed boy picks…
for Jacqui and AngelaLeaving the known for another city the club-car smells of old velvet rails whisper relief mantras steel upon steelevery fourth thud breaks the hum “stand and fight,” I said leaving my words for ransom “your only way…
if you have ever tried to reach me and I could not hear you these words are in place of the dead air still between us. —”Morning Is a Time for Miracles”How many other dark young men at 33 left…
I am a Black womanwriting my way to the futureoff a garbage scow knit from moral fiberstuck together with jessehelms’come where Art is a dirty wordscrawled on the wallof Bilbo’s memorial outhouseand obscenity is catchingeven I’d like to to hear…
Gloria has a permitto change the earthplucks fliesfrom the airwhile discussingrevolutionis taken for localin a lotof different places.
100,000 bees make a sturdy hive ready three days after the moon is fullwe cut honey.Our hot knives slice the caps of wax from each heavy framedark pollened richness dripsfrom the laden combs.Sadiq loads the extractor Curtis leveling the spin.…