Of slingshots and satellites Disciples of a new god rising scour the earth in minute detail listening, watching from satellites in the cold empty space and servers in some dark secret place Worshiping the dawn of It’s power It’s budding omnipotence It’s blooming omnipresence It’s emerging autonomy, most valued of It’s attributes for the disciples …
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sunblooms: Collected Prison Poems, Part Six
Content Gifts of Big Brother Fox Catch & Release Biographia Howling for Justice Danton Dancing to the Cross Notes toward a unified theory of History Unrequited Revelations The dead prepare the ground Inhaling Lightning Prison Primer Prison Retrospective A few stolen hours Fame Conditional Surrender Variation on the Theme of Penitence Flow Yes, Well Quotidian …
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The Mariner Cycle: Collected Prison Poems, Part Five
Contents Invocation of the Poet The Mariner Overtime The Moon, Yes, the Moon! Relief for the little girl On the writing process A dead man whispers advice into my ear Maritime Aphorisms On the cusp of a great Dream Invocation of the Poet I. I call upon the guardians at the gate, I hail …
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Homage to Captivity: Collected Prison Poems, Part Three
Contents Still Thinking of Aaron Hernandez Venetian blind It’s all in the head What are we becoming? Upon finishing a meal of carrion & dish soap Cartographer My dreams give chase In Vein These days You’re my favorite kind of light Thirty Nights of Lonesome Still Thinking of Aaron Hernandez A dream touches his …
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Couplet
Ode to Womanhood Oh! beautiful abundant overflowing women Fount of all mercies showering grace unending! You are as much the me that survived as I who has always loved you, the tender splendor of motherhood the fierce refusal of soul-death the smiles of light pouring forth from teeth and lips and dimples gentle caresses smell …
Zealot: Collected Prison Poems, Part Four
Contents A faith of my own Form Fitting Crucible Hard lessons writ in flesh Wounded Animals Resistance on our tongues Tongue Shark A faith of my own To take 10,000 songs and a dozen years and all the stars and all the eyes in the entire world And melt them down into a single …
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Solitary Meditations: Collected Prison Poems, Part Two
Contents Boredom A world without lions Trains Thought adrift A pressure behind the eyes The blind witness Withering dreams The quickening Mud in the dark A divine falling “I prefer to think of peace . . .” Choices Boredom A dull pain of fluorescence off stainless steel the sudden violence of a garbage disposal …
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Little Brothers
Little Brothers for Tamir Rice The softness of your face, warm as the sun’s rays, The richness of your brown eyes, full of laughter, Live on, little brother, in my heart. The cowards who murdered you will pay dearly but that truth is not a salve on the bleeding wound of this world. …
Prison Kites: Collected Prison Poems, Part One
This first bundle of poems were originally published in the NYC Anarchist Black Cross newsletter, which can be accessed here: https://nycabc.wordpress.com/pppow-updates-announcements/ Contents Prison Mailroom Worker Blues Economic Disadvantage Partial Invitation Chemical Discrepancy Flexibility Vertical Fall Redress {Untitled} Petulance Condemnation Mother dead time January 17, 2015 Prison Existence Cleveland, i miss ur misery Futile wanderings …
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Alien Children
Alien Children Surely this being has fallen from foreign skies another world through some mishap here to die. (originally published in the Earth First! Journal)