12/12/2016 Three Poems by Mike Linaweavermorning when we had taken up residence I had thought of little else but the saddle of your spine and the curve of your neck and the long ragged prairies punctuated by ochered cattle that stain the horizon red with the first teeth of dawn and you angled as you are lying between me and us a leg draped over the edge whisper quietly in your sleep of the river dead with the rot of a gaudy hour yellowing toward daylight in the gales of the central plains I want to say silence crisp and clingy the rim of your peasant dress and those flowers knuckled between your fingers who are you? You made lemonade but I want to say to you alajladejown aljenaljaoof but I want to say to you that I love you but but I am choked and the plants are dead and the cat is resting like cats do and my tongue knows no language yet so I like the plains grow over terminally lipped by the congealing mass of breath black and curs ed charms and calam ity and days a drift countless meatless hulls of of the ending suns this sea son of mold er ing dissent bends to the god on my lips I am a sequence frowning into of unfastened ideas and street lamps grocery stores liberalism, revision, sectarianism and stagnation the politics of meloncholy of dead engines of cigarette smoke and our languages of duopoly and our rape of revered ghosts and our days of lesser socialism or evilism political spectres more of want than of strategy creating the blind planets of our burden mixing the heat of generations with beer and tear gas wanting the how and the when of existing this is propagation this is creating the blind we this is the distressed voter this is the incurable and dying worker lashed to factories of context failing the test of organic rythms we forgot the bread and roses Bio: Mike Linaweaver is a socialist, activist and writer operating in the endless summer of South Texas. His story "Are You Alright?" was nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in Sleet Magazine, The Magill Review and Red Wedge Magazine. He was a founding member and editor of the South Texas art and culture (maga)zine, Strike and is currently working on the small press project Strike Syndicate with fellow founder, editor and writer Raul Alonzo.
Taysha
12/16/2016 01:16:36 am
Big fan. Always inspiring me, my friend. Comments are closed.
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