The Fifth of July, 2020
For Anselm Berrigan
work like miasma fount of boundless energy
un lifted the weekly cross carrying candles out
more tomorrow
what of it
when will it be
rockets
candles
fire
fire
candles
rockets
miasmic beat beat beat the beat beat beat
sky lashed clouds watery rage ready for release
rain thunder lightning summer’s heartless mares roaring skies
O say how we be O say what we be
O say can we be O say
Can we be
Free
Notes:
“The Fifth of July, 2020” from The Beloved Community, copyright 2023 by Patricia Spears Jones, used by permission of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.
Source:
Poetry
(October 2023)
