Brian Beatty On Amiri Baraka

Borrowed Trouble: Micro Tribute to Amiri Baraka (1934-2014)

I wouldn’t write at all if it weren’t for myriad writers before me whose works showed me what was possible. The poems of this series are small offerings of respect, of thanks, to those muses. – Brian Beatty

Amiri Baraka

Thelonious Sphere 

Monk

I’m thinking 

with his name 

typed/hyped out here like so 

many black & white 

piano 

keys dancing 

(solo, mumble shouting “Go!”) 

up & down the stage 

of the page 

ought to be all the poem

anyone I know needs

thanks.

– Brian Beatty

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