HOW THIS HAPPENED
--As if they didn’t know where they were
Cornelius Eady “Crows in a Strong Wind”
Back from eye doctor
Rough Magic Atlanta drum
Kitchen counter clean
this morning, down in Atlanta
first song gets it right
hand the young optometrist
the burned copy of Mr. Brown’s
song poems read xeroxed wrapped
Bitter Fruit of the Tree, glossed
black ink in margins.
So he’ll know where vision
comes from, ancestral new
signal lights coming on. Young
physician, this medicine
fights hate in Atlanta,
come from Michael Harper
songlines week-end-workshop
cookout Cornelius Eady
threshold walking chance-
changing door way new
project development walk.
Jim Bodeen
18 March 2021
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