Kevin Simmonds
Nod
I’m ashamed I miss the congregationthe teamwork cheering the Lord’s descent setting us apartchosen as we are I miss the altar the laying of hands the suturing the melodies that vindicate howsoever we needin the hour we bleat like sheep confused & loosed into the blur I want to be among them again nodding bonded by certainty that I’m in the worldbut not of …
Scott, Supervisor of the Dispossessed
for Scott Wiener, San Francisco Supervisor, District 8 I know this cityits namesake friarthe mystic who bled, Scott 800 years beforeall this cement& scaffolding we know the birdsin his namethe visions what to dowith this historythis minority who nowdoes the city claimas progeny the longhaired boysmelling of patchoulihis hemp spread out Nick the Wiccanin an open relationshiphis desiderata of dick pregnant Alexandraher architect …
stop-&-frisk
-&-what- does-it-take- to-cooperate- -shrink- into-an-apology -turn-over- your-body -turn-out- your-pockets -be-a-right-answer- to-questions -they-choose -be- chosen