Wednesday, November 25, 2009

E Mail to Damniso Lopez: November


E MAIL TO DAMNISO LOPEZ
(November)

Again, November.
The cypress cadenzas
Are red
Like the flags
That overthrew the Czar.
But cypress
Have no politics, no bread lines,
No millionaire’s yachts.
Or religion.

So cypress provide limbs
For birds to build nests,

Do have revolutions,
Or do not kill
Or ostracize those

Those who have different beliefs.

Cypress are the chosen race.


Duane Locke

Posted over on Eleventh Transmission

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