Gentrification
a poem on the Best American Poetry Blog
Hello, everybody,
One of my poems, “Gentrification,” is the Pick of the Week at the Best American Poetry blog.
Here’s the link if you’d like to give it a read:
And a regular post to all my subscribers is coming tomorrow and a post for my paid subscribers is coming on Wednesday.
Thanks,
Sherman
What a beautiful, powerful poem. It turned my eyes toward the forgotten, neglected, invisible. I wonder, does my reading your poem make the forgotten son less forgotten? If none of the weeping, forgotten sons know that I am reading your poem, are they any less invisible when I read your poem?
I am reminded (often) of your poem of the dog, almost run over by a driver. It ends:
Why do poets think
They can change the world?
The only life I can save
Is my own.
Not true, not true.
WOW! I have shivers on this one.