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Boatman/TeacherIf you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, / I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try..” / -Marianne Moore
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Jun 17, 2022
JuneteenthWe celebrate Juneteenth as if the war was not still being fought / Across news stations and echoes of Jefferson's dreams / The last slaves freed, but this country was never
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Jun 17, 2022
Prayer PracticeCome forth, bury your skinny / necks in the full breath of sky / This world is a guillotine
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Mar 1, 2017
Fallen TombstonesWe have broken ourselves for less / Then the dreams of our forefathers, / Their bones still singing in the dust.
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Mar 1, 2017
Reading the StonesThe carvings on the stones / Read like scars / In this city that has bled for centuries
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Dec 24, 2013
DachauWhen I went to Dachau / I expected death / I expected ghosts
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Dec 24, 2013
CollisionLike the shifting ways the ocean reaches for the shore / Or maybe how summer sun falls gently upon the backs of children / You came into my life softly
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Dec 24, 2013
Second BloomThe old man / A broken down factory / Sagging within the crumbled graffiti of his skin
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Dec 24, 2013
13 Ways of Looking at a Poet1. / I once met a rich poet and asked him / What we writes about?
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Dec 24, 2013
Five RosesI. / A rose / Is a rose
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Dec 24, 2013
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