I have found another sanctuary
amid Congress,
Democratic art
beautiful hips
Capital Hill women
walking to the subway
for walk,
their hands, at their sides,
waving goodbye.
there is a slight
breeze this morning
as I sit among
the great philosophers,
champions of imagination
and thought,
one wonders
what I am doing here
in this august hall?
writing tales
of those that died on the corner,
voluntary suicides,
shadows
that will not heal
or move away,
where else should I
be, again at the seat
of government
power,
scribbling poems while
Governors are pontificating
repeating words
under emblems,
He did not want to say
anything too authentic
correct but not the
speech I wrote for
Martin Luther King week, at Virginia Union University
“the speech was eloquent/and you are fired.”
endure America,
they take our little
droplets of blood
killing us
with what we do not know,
like the thousands of
death threats
for Lt. Governor Wilder
I saw them one day,
on a pristine mahgony table
stacked neatly
ungrammatical threats
of taking him “behind the tool shed
and doin to him what he did to white girls like Klugie.”
there is always
ugly underbelly,
stinking, threatening
destroy
the sweet scents
of progress,
from destroying
flowers, children
everything above
people need sanctuaries,
places where there
is nothing
thought and air,
allowing ideas
to somersault
replace Gothic images
of houses without doors,
hinges without foundations.
Author Bio:
In a few months, OLYMPIA press will publish SELL THE TEAM, a critique of the last twenty one years of the New York Knicks. Next year, OLMPIA press will publish GUERILLA WARFARE, a novel by Mr. Reed. His memoir, MIGRATION MEMORIES was awarded the NORTH STREET/BOOK OF THE YEAR/ Honorable Mention Award this year and has a semi-finalist in the NCTE/NORMAN MAILER High School Teachers' Non-Fiction Award. Born in Manhattan, New York, attended NYC Public Schools and was awarded the Jean S. Grossinger Award for the best English student in middle school. Graduate of Long Island University in Journalism, VCU, an M.A. in English/English Education and doctoral work in contemporary drama at Georgia State University.
amid Congress,
Democratic art
beautiful hips
Capital Hill women
walking to the subway
for walk,
their hands, at their sides,
waving goodbye.
there is a slight
breeze this morning
as I sit among
the great philosophers,
champions of imagination
and thought,
one wonders
what I am doing here
in this august hall?
writing tales
of those that died on the corner,
voluntary suicides,
shadows
that will not heal
or move away,
where else should I
be, again at the seat
of government
power,
scribbling poems while
Governors are pontificating
repeating words
under emblems,
He did not want to say
anything too authentic
correct but not the
speech I wrote for
Martin Luther King week, at Virginia Union University
“the speech was eloquent/and you are fired.”
endure America,
they take our little
droplets of blood
killing us
with what we do not know,
like the thousands of
death threats
for Lt. Governor Wilder
I saw them one day,
on a pristine mahgony table
stacked neatly
ungrammatical threats
of taking him “behind the tool shed
and doin to him what he did to white girls like Klugie.”
there is always
ugly underbelly,
stinking, threatening
destroy
the sweet scents
of progress,
from destroying
flowers, children
everything above
people need sanctuaries,
places where there
is nothing
thought and air,
allowing ideas
to somersault
replace Gothic images
of houses without doors,
hinges without foundations.
Author Bio:
In a few months, OLYMPIA press will publish SELL THE TEAM, a critique of the last twenty one years of the New York Knicks. Next year, OLMPIA press will publish GUERILLA WARFARE, a novel by Mr. Reed. His memoir, MIGRATION MEMORIES was awarded the NORTH STREET/BOOK OF THE YEAR/ Honorable Mention Award this year and has a semi-finalist in the NCTE/NORMAN MAILER High School Teachers' Non-Fiction Award. Born in Manhattan, New York, attended NYC Public Schools and was awarded the Jean S. Grossinger Award for the best English student in middle school. Graduate of Long Island University in Journalism, VCU, an M.A. in English/English Education and doctoral work in contemporary drama at Georgia State University.
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