Death to Paint Us
there is always one more death to paint us an ochre without axle aiming us like a sunflower down a path a harp once followed to still the scythe before losing love against itself
Credit
Copyright © 2018 by J. Michael Martinez. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on December 26, 2018, by the Academy of American Poets.
About this Poem
“After withdrawing from a PhD program, I worked a variety of jobs: library security guard, high school English teacher, flower delivery driver, etc. During my many hours of solitude delivering flowers, contemplating my future, I recited and revised new lines of poetry out loud, recording them on my phone. ‘Death to Paint Us’ is one such poem.”
—J. Michael Martinez
Author
J. Michael Martinez
J. Michael Martinez's collection Heredities was selected by Juan Felipe Herrera for the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award and was published by Louisiana State University Press.
Date Published
12/26/2018