Liberty's Left Hand
Submitted by cscheung on Tuesday, Jun 23rd 2009No Comment
It’s the eve of prosperity’s hiatus
Wolves in dark suits
Circle in search
Of an open sore
Shadows with shovels
Congregate
Death swaggers in
And opens a tab
Guiltless as sunrise
Bedfellows in exile
Emerge with new demands
Background noise gains on us all
Moneychangers on a hill
Auction the Oval’s hand
A two hundred year old woman
Expires at the pump
Grief stricken children
Bearing flowers detonate
Moonlight screeches
To a giant stop!
Jawanza Dumisani
Contributing Writer
Los Angeles, CA
“A great deal of my writing is inspired by challenges and triumphs we encounter singularly and collectively in our day to day lives.”
Jawanza Dumisani is a 2005 PEN FELLOW and is the Director of Literary Programming for THE WORLD STAGE Performance Gallery in Leimert Park Village in Los Angeles.
Marco Mannone
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