Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Defiant by Patricia Spears Jones


Defiant
 
Fruit from one vine tangles with another
Making a mess of the intended harvest, yet
the lack of calculation is welcome  
 
that accident that shifts bodies from shadows
into a locus of light midday bright & caustic
wounds un-healed   newsreel cameras trap  
 
this old & angry man in a bespoke suit lifting
white pages & refusing to read them, mumbles
unwelcome threats & thanks the nation  
 
the nation kicks him out—finally defiant
after years of misrule, disruption, murder
and the choked voice youth terrorized  
 
he wants more blood on his hands so that
when he enters his version of paradise
all will be red.


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