Malak Mattar, Untitled (detail), 2024, charcoal on paper
A Political Documentary
Admission for tonight’s show of crickets
is to scratch music from a violin
the price for the morning’s birds
is to chant an egg out of your chest
Alternative?
The sun will clench itself
into a hammer at noon
and flatten your heart
Winter will strangle your
reproductive organ like a swan’s neck
in the hands of a madman
Alternative?
Turn your power into snow
you will melt into summer—
the avenue of your voice
without a trace of artillery
parading like the wind
Published:

Douglas Blazek
Douglas Blazek has a chapbook out from Ox Head Press entitled I Am a Weapon and another from The Stone Press, Lethal Paper. A full length collection, Edible Fire, is scheduled for publication by Morgan Press. (updated 1976)
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