30poemsinNovember
Poems
To Make Amends
I am looking for maps on GoogleTo show me the peoples my peoplesDisplaced. Finding their namesHearing their voices in the PennacookThe Pocumtuck the Mohawk But where do I even start?My…
posted November 25, 2020
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Siphonophore
After Stephen Philbrick. They say the mysteries of the heavensAre nothing compared to the mysteries of the seasWhose leagues we cannot fathom,Whose depths we take for grantedUnderfoot, our terrestrial backyard….
posted November 15, 2020
30poemsinNovember
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Did you see those maps?
Stranger, you are welcome hereRegardless of the laws of men and womenWho don’t see that freedom can’t be contained by a wall.This land, always yours to claim, as much as…
posted November 11, 2020
30poemsinNovember
Poems
When They Said He Won
When they said he won, they meant release the prisoner––you––from her cage. You can gaze at the trees again. Look at them glow in the November sun––the leaves on the…
posted November 10, 2020
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Poems
America the Beautiful Nov.2020 addition
In November 2016, I started writing new lyrics to Katharine Lee Bates’s beautiful hymn. Throughout the last four years, I have added verses. Today, I wrote this. O beautiful DemocracyWhere…
posted November 8, 2020
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Poems
I Didn’t Know I Wasn’t Supposed to Love
Another thing I didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to love until college was squirrels. My babysitter in New York would take me to the park, and when I’d point my…
posted November 7, 2020
30poemsinNovember
Poems
Waiting for What I Want
Blessed are the meekFor they haveLearned to softenlike the clay at the bottomOf a riverAnd so they move,ProteanDiffusiveAmphibianNever attachedNever dryNever crackedNever broken becauseChoosing porousnessThey know nothing is wholly theirsWhich means…
posted November 5, 2020
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November 8, 2016
Remember the Trump signs that appeared like mushrooms overnight, shocking in their foreignness, isolated on the traffic island, and how they could not shake your faith? Remember the pungent blue…
posted November 4, 2020
30poemsinNovember
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Last Kisses, 2020
These are re-written lyrics to the 1998 Nields song “Last Kisses.” David Nields, who wrote the song, has given me permission to revision this for 2020. My poem #2. We…
posted November 3, 2020
