Wosene Worke Kosrof, The Inventor V (detail), 2022, acrylic on linen. Courtesy of Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
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
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)