please lift our breathless lungs
blood on the streets
put there by military cops
who will police the police?
wild river stranger clean my eyes
before they burn & tear in gasoline
downtown with the blood
of black children shed in dirty snow
*
you cowards can’t kill me!
spray painted across the bridge
above the tracks
your hand on my arm
leading me protectively
across cars
forever rivers
temporary coal
trains temporary steam
plants temporary pulp
mills temporary prisons
temporary factories
forever mountains forever rivers
thank you earth giver
purple and red fish
coming from under the log
after i put my feet in rain creek
and my baby followed me in
how lucky i am
fireflies in the night
the beauty of being alive
exiled
wanted only by the sea
and rivers
by hibiscus
& red branch
flowers in the night
& that’s a lot
slick fish
gliding by clean
& fluid hidden
among the throb
of bridges
city of visionaries covered in diesel
strangeness of not
having wilderness
to commune with
now i pray to each star
patch of sky
plot of grass
& graveyard wind
river that shines
wild blue oceanic at night
Bionote
Lisa Panepinto is the author of two poetry collections, On This Borrowed Bike (Three Rooms Press, 2013) and Island Dreams (Cabildo Press, 2009). Her writing has appeared in The Accompanist, Maintenant, Pittsburgh City Paper, Red Flag Poetry, Yes, Poetry and more. She is poetry editor for Cabildo Quarterly, an online and print literary journal.
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