RESISTANCE
The sun rose
without an executive order
Unvetted clouds immigrated
Crows bullied each other
over the tallest lampposts
in vacant parking lots
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RESISTANCE
The sun rose
without an executive order
Unvetted clouds immigrated
Crows bullied each other
over the tallest lampposts
in vacant parking lots
[Read more…]
Need
Is migrating from all four directions
An unbroken procession
of broken lives
that pauses to tie prayers
on the wishing tree [Read more…]
Madness
to take a direct flight
into the storm
Submit my body
to random searches for poetry
as if metal detectors
read metaphor [Read more…]
What appears
to be an ordinary bucket
is a sacred vessel
blessed by hands
burned on desert death marches
carried during the Armenian Genocide.
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Women
kiss icons in the church of Saint Lazarus
place devote hands
over a reliquary
containing the saint’s bones
Beneath the altar –
a crypt with an empty sarcophagus
My eyes christen the marble with tears
for a distant country
in need of resuscitation [Read more…]
In the old world
a familiar story
The king constructs a labyrinth
because Minotaurs
must be fed
It requires a beast
to kick eyes into dust
and steal a crown [Read more…]
A respite
between waves
reflecting
the mandala of sun
Touch Apollo’s altar
and throw yourself
into light
before resolution
breaks
the sea’s mirror
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Next holiday season
bells will be ringing:
Tongues hammering
sunken cheeks
Hands
stripped to bones
peeling for handouts from thieves [Read more…]
One hour from Jerusalem
there aren’t borderline personalities
speaking in Bible verses
outside airports
No religious right
to save the wronged from damnation
No television evangelists
to deliver widows from pension checks [Read more…]
People stare at me
Six feet of blue eyes
looking out over a sea of black hair
People stare
at minority me [Read more…]
Dancers stepped on their own feet
bankers robbed
consumers shopped
sellers sold out
rappers wrapped themselves in gold chains
politicians shit bricks [Read more…]
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