Etheridge Knight: Poems Poem Text

Etheridge Knight: Poems Poem Text

Apology for Apostasy? (Excerpt)

Soft songs, like birds, die in poison air

So my song cannot now be candy.

Anger rots the oak and elm; roses are rare,

Seldom seen through blind despair.

At a VA Hospital in the Middle of the United States of America (Excerpt)

Stars from five wars, scars,

Words filled with ice and fear,

Nightflares and fogginess,

and a studied regularity.

The Sun Came (Excerpt)

The sun came, Miss Brooks,-

After all the night years.

He came spitting fire from his lips.

And we flipped - We goofed the whole thing.

It looks like our ears were not equipped

For the fierce hammering.

- Etheridge Knight

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