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if you have had
your midnights
and they have drenched
your barren guts
with tears
I sing you sunrise
and love
and someone to touch
From Continuum: New and Selected Poems (Just Us Books, Inc., 2007 and 2014) by Mari Evans. Copyright © 2007 and 2014 by Mari Evans. Used with the permission of the Estate of Mari Evans.
Louis
Master of the pearly whites—teeth
Offense against the enemy, Defense against
The pain ….
Irrepressible Louie-man
MAN the operative word
Child/man at seven, fresh-dented coronet
Serious man, jubilant man
MAN the operative word
Wanted to be his real self
Wanted us to know his real self
His invincible, unconquerable real self
His straight man self
MAN the operative word
For Paula Cooper and all the other children on death row, cir. 1989
How sudden dies the blooming
One instant’s crass confusion
An err of hand
of heart and head
A bent decision then
and now
one instant in the past as
constant present
Rarely out of reach the act
Tethered to some unrelenting
infinite recall
Today’s reality
in yesterday’s precise and fine
*Women With HIV/AIDS
Pain knows no distinction
Hear
the muted music of our
footsteps
thru the mist