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Wednesday, 07 December 2005 10:14 |
functional
for sunny & celia sinclair
for fifteen years
i wrote my poems
in the streets,
on a thousand stages,
in the daily lives of my daughters.
i wrote my poems
but they were deeds,
not words, they took flesh
& blood from me, & the tears
of a thousand nights in prison.
i did my part, & gave
from the center of my heart, poetry
in motion, a record of action
cut into the grooves of my time
from 1967 to '82.
now i write in words again,
five years of welcome eloquence,
a thousand stanzas of investigative verse,
stark & functional as the music
which has so far informed these years.
harmonie park
detroit
february 7, 1988 |
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