Category: War & Politics
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Fairy tale for billionaires
If when the beanstalk was cut down The giant fell on Jack His mother and their wretched little house We would know The name of the giant and Not a fleeing petty criminal 8-3-21
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60 years on
Sixty years on I wonder what white Cubans And black Cubans think of Batista What stories grandfathers and grandmothers Washed and served with salad greens At dinner tables in Cuba and America What did parents teach their children And what do children know of truth? Sixty years on I wonder what white Cubans And black…
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St. George’s lament
lizard on fence rail dark in long shadows green among the vines did you know my forefathers hid among vines from your forefathers before stars fell from the sky before the burning before the long winter came before the dying before their bones became dragon’s lore 6-26-21
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praying to patriarchs
thread bare dress sinew and bone calloused feet on ground hands in air I have four kids, don’t call me lazy, I work three jobs, none pay a living wage I’m not your incubator to impregnate and leave I make ends that have no end – meet pay me a living wage and give me…
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window rattling
fighter jets race low crack sky shake house gone before sound freedom is not quiet 5-2-21
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reading Odysseus
I feel sorry for Penelope Ten years warring Ten years wandering And no one knows for sure Suitors come daily Walk through her door Demand she chose One of them to marry She knows they don’t love her Lust for her in the night Like great Odysseus They only want to be king 4-16-21
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haiku while sweeping pollen from the porch
on a screened porch silllooking out, a dead wasp lieslonging for freedom 4-10-21
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meditations on the killing of Lorca
between the rise and fall the honk and wail of distant sirens high above the drone of ritual leaf blowing by bright vested park employees I still discern the call and response of birds chanting to the morning while on the ground looking up waiting for one of them to make a mistake a feral…
My husband's poetry 