This poem is part of the special section, New Poems of U.S. History, reflecting on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence selected by editors Carolivia Herron, Summer Tate, and Robert Bettmann....
Etched
protectedand unprotectedpartsmake the wholemake the art
pour on the acidthe chemicalsfeel the burnfeel the boiling consumptiondepletiondestruction
or just watch it
from beneath the quiet balmof secrecy and...
The Monuments
The monuments are goneGood riddance I sayTalk about losing a battleThey lost an entire war
Cold cast iron facesof Lee, Jackson, and Jefferson Davis,Put...
These poems are published here connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community.
It took too...
Dry Splash
All these years we’ve been worried about
the sea levels rising,
when what we should have paid attention to
was the fresh water levels falling.
Long-forgotten riverbeds...
I Want Better
I want better.
I find this double mindedness debilitatingAnd I am hating the outcomes that I see
I want to flee from realityBecause of...
Late in the Game
We sleep peacefully,side-by-side,except, by chance,when she or I turn outward, to the edgeof our plush and well-shaped bed.
Never inward, it would...
These poems are published here connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community.
It took too...
