The Poet, and Her Geography
Location
And all for verse, I wrote it.
To preach for our
Humble experiences.
We have miles, and the seas behind us,
From the farthest
Splashes, we
Have Carved out harmony
from chips,
and from waste cans
from Non-numerical points. And
single handed directions.
And all for verse, shadows wane.
Towns lurk behind
The nation’s plaques of honor.
And always chanting with
The atlantic winds,
My song of healing hums.
But yet, Stillness.
Knowledge of how
To make light out of darkness.
Treachery. Black magic. Danger.
Locked neutral spaces
linger in Even
more uncharged time.
Splash, big one.
big splashes
Into even larger sinks.
Sinks that sting with citrus
Oil and chlorine.
Afraid to explode the constraints of
Science. Manufactured rationality.
Innate magical powers lay
Dormant. So
The art book of beat poets
Is reread through the mic.
And other pretentious
Persons shrouding in non
Less than righteousness
Hold the trademarks
Over my burlap sack dues
