Raw Goods

we've been listening

we've been listening to learn how to
take up the stones to sharpen them.
we get these ideas in our head;
how cut the plantations from history?

not often can it be done
without suddenly being pedantic;
when it works best, this emergence
from a singular amnesia...

michael's paint dries above -
can you stand it? -
angelo provides encouragement
for a frescoe's repetitive despair.

we leave the chapel, unresolved
to our salvation, dedicated to our
a) b) c) - doesn't mean you
can't escape the museum of

Jurassic technology - words swim
around and around slavery -
we didn't read what we couldn't see
how open eyes in the dark?

some already know
some can't forget
we are many
we are one

so they say.

posted by judy j @ 2:52 PM