|
********************************
|
Sarah Menefee lives and works in San Francisco. She is a long-time homeless and poor peoples activist (in such organizations as the Union of the Homeless and Homes Not Jails), she is a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, and a correspodent for The People's Tribune. Her collections of poetry include I'm Not Thousandfurs and The Blood About the Heart (both from Curbstone Press), Human Star (Heretical Texts, Factory School, 20r The People's Tribune. Her collections of poetry include 05), and numerous chapbooks. Il Sangue Intorno al Cuore, in Italian and English, was published in Italy by Multimedia Edizioni, and a translation into Spanish of Human Star is forthcoming in Venezuela.
|
|
**************************************
|
. . . at the heart of this a prison cell
a cosmos of caught limbs
and there the human form divine: naked man
in a black hood
and all around him all of us
equally confined
bowed head in its infernal hood: blindness inflicted and all around
we who did it or looked aside: diminished to insane
ideas: twisted fragments
of mad thought: wrecks
of ourselves: broken
statuary
howling for our innocent bodies: only he
in the middle has one
the slave in the middle . . .
|
|
