for Fatisha
I wish I were an easy poet
without layers
abject pain
gentrification
shooting sociological reality
like a hypodermic needle
those
still suffering
shadows,
wondering when
their sneakers
will swing
telephone wire
simple memorials
for death
splattered on
the concrete.
2.
death taken
easily
reasonably
afternoon
when radios were on
women hung
laundry
in bathrooms to dry.
Author Bio:
Dennis Reed was a member of the infamous poetry group BUD JONES and his work has appeared in Essence, CLA, Black Scholar and the Free Press. Mr. Reed's memoir Migration Memories, was chosen as a semi-final entrant in the NCTE/Norman Mailer non-fiction contest. Mr. Reed is a National Endowment Fellow and his book of poetry was published by OPUS press this fall.
I wish I were an easy poet
without layers
abject pain
gentrification
shooting sociological reality
like a hypodermic needle
those
still suffering
shadows,
wondering when
their sneakers
will swing
telephone wire
simple memorials
for death
splattered on
the concrete.
2.
death taken
easily
reasonably
afternoon
when radios were on
women hung
laundry
in bathrooms to dry.
Author Bio:
Dennis Reed was a member of the infamous poetry group BUD JONES and his work has appeared in Essence, CLA, Black Scholar and the Free Press. Mr. Reed's memoir Migration Memories, was chosen as a semi-final entrant in the NCTE/Norman Mailer non-fiction contest. Mr. Reed is a National Endowment Fellow and his book of poetry was published by OPUS press this fall.
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