reading between the lives and writing between the lines, I
but you're a girl ...
my pink-haired sister
stands firm
with her legs apart
urinating before Father
Added: reading between the lives and writing between the lines, II
I (a closet gay)
no longer a Catholic ...
my friend walks
out of the church backwards
while gazing at the altar
My new writing project title, alludes to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's view of "Poetry as Insurgent Art:"
ReplyDeleteStrive to change the world in such a way that there’s no further need to be a dissident. Read between the lives, and write between the lines. Be committed to something outside yourself.
And the following mainstream tanka could be read as a sequel to mine:
on a shelf
in her dining room...
the red truck
her father bought
hoping for a boy
A Hundred Gourds, 2:1, December 2012
Ken Slaughter