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Speech in an Age of Certainty examines the widespread and systematic use of violence, oppression, extraction, and propaganda by the powerful and wealthy. These 34 poems reflect my concern with the use of power to exploit the weak in both historic and contemporary settings. Inevitably this led to poems regarding police brutality, Hiroshima, settler colonialism,war-for-profit, identity, history of our sins and finding balance.
Sample Poem from Speech in an Age of Certainty
Fracking
"Lithosphere." Def. Rigid, rocky outer layer of the Earth consisting of the crust.
be with me
when senses wake
to the bed's
shaking frame,
the ground rumbling
underfoot
as a fault line
slips and widens up
to swallows us,
as needles twitch
on the Richter scale
at the shifting
between
tectonic plates.
we could shout,
No fracking
in the lithosphere!
or just lie
in bed and say,
While it lasted, the sex
was great.
either way,
we're burning down
our last cigarette.