Anne Birkam

Bellicose United

This is how democracy dies. Take a Saturday night massacre and make it common like daylily yellow in June – other colors subdued. This is how the outraged cry – ‘I will not be that one.’ The tank at Tiananmen Square is an image that remains though the spirit is crushed human beings undone. ThisContinue reading “Bellicose United”

white

this visitor raps on my door dressed in a doctor’s prescription i engulf him or does he engulf me? 1-20-80

razor blade

you slick and brassy cheat father time of further transgressions to be judged by 1980s

Knife

Cool steel you are, sheen bridled in a glassy tone. You, magnet of my dreams, draw me, enclose me, wrap me in your strength. I am the beginning, you are the end, shall we meet? 1980s

I can I will

I have bathed in you long. I have doused your crystals on the strands of my hair. I have welcomed you, splashing your waves against my thighs. I have lived through you. But now I let the arid sun burn me dry. Your sweet cool bubbles do not belong on my skin anymore. Find anotherContinue reading “I can I will”

hatchet

glider pane and sleek sparkle a mirror smile to approach this wobble turkey’s neck of mine sharp exact timed right aaah at last i breathe 2/13/1980

Car

They glare at me. They glare at me in blindness- silver stars surging forth into light years. They are insane to believe that my hands will not wind the wheel towards them. 1980s revised 11/2016

bye bye headache

bye bye headache fly away from me bye bye see you no more fly away from me can i make it yes i can me in me says me bye bye headache fly away from me 2/26/80

aspirin

take one no effect take two less less take three great relief take four flying high take more sky higher take all headache gone gone gone 1980s

when columbus discovered america

“Nothing comes easily to you human creature least of all the skill to live humanely” Ghalib i welcome you, welcome to this fair land of green green as the moist food you eat plenty as the jingle in you piggy bank golden as the picture maiden’s hair i say to you welcome! entrance knob toContinue reading “when columbus discovered america”