Friday, December 20, 2019

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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