Tag Archives: political poems
What Matters
By Rushelle Frazier
If five people are shot outside a police station, does it make a sound?
Can you hear it over cries for justice
in the streets?
Walt Whitman and the Weather Report
(After Robinson Jeffers)
By Laurinda Lind
Walt
in the twenty-first century
shakes the acorns from his beard
and lumbers forth to nourish
himself upon the air