5 poems
Excerpts from Midnight’s Talking Lion and the Wedding Fire
“Once they fear you, they cannot be contemptuous toward you
anymore,” after parole they go on a journey” to become
capable of think, elsewhere, community, and “The Other.
Meanwhile, great shock when average youth around immigrant
age perhaps realize she is at least not French enough –
the naming action that normally makes things sense fails;
the world which she finds herself, and by which she might
hope to define herself does not exist, as such, so she does not
exist for that world.
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And what has her parents endure? When she finds the world
considered beautiful, not like, not peopled by those who look
like a group of people othered by a larger section for turning
inward, and away a young faith wanes. And they othered they.
Not unlikely. Finally approached larger but and also. Not
unlikely very people approach them out of bi-directional
isolation; those from outside often do not know how to engage
desire. James Baldwin phenomenon: “Think any purpose to get
another’s matter liberation, for example, it is also a matter of
yours. If you’re working, and we’re working together, and it’s
not just because we’re going to do something for poor people,
but because it’s for each other: to save this, these, rather
frightening years of this almost double-decade.”
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Like incarceration America: extra-realism of prisons compels
balking at the resistance of poetry to conventions
of evidentiary writing.” Wright goes on at least among
American poets, the documentary vision intertwined the lyric
impulse with sporadic events of proportion—Depression
struggle: civil always war…readily reminded of Testimony…
of the Dead,” or “Driving Louisiana pass four prisons
in the spirit of manifest public works.” So this is who we jailers
jailed. This is spirit.
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Meanwhile, only 14.5% Americans live. 54% of whom are not
African American or Hispanic. Wright points out:
Interrelation abuse and the naked eye blaring out statistics
of the developed rate of a distant second. The Association
for Mental Illness has some 70% of youths in state and local
juvenile justice facilities, warehouses for becoming. France
has a poverty of first-generation immigrants in, between, bars,
barred, 70% are Muslim – while comprising only 8 – 10 %
of French fervor.
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Their cités told him of the incarcerated: “explained that weak
inmates who never receive visits are offered new identity,
a vision inverting order places top bottom” France more
susceptible; outlook of thought unwavering; complimented
by tendencies to mind. “One of the diseases communicated
comes from huddling together in the pale light of insufficient
answer to a question we are afraid. “More conversion
predisposed people with time hands: the more affluent,
imprisoned, underemployed.
Thus, the social associated with susceptibility; the West more
complex than just born insecurity. What gap bridges affluent,
well-placed extremes and the low-income, under-educated
seclusion living fracture. Certain skin tone, last values name
a fit or find in the world in one oneself. This is people media.
Urged color in the West, to join the West.
Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press, 2020), and of Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a PEN Award. He is the editor of the forthcoming anthology, Divine Orphans of the Poetic Project, from 1913 Press, and his work has appeared in the Fence, Boston Review, APR, Volt, Lana Turner, Iowa Review, and elsewhere.