Antique stanza 1990's to be added to american poem, Overland: A Midwestern Postcard 1987 U.S.A.

(...)... I grip the cold mud and I sing
with immemorial tears
never thrown from the sky.

Only
drawn arid like bones
brittle and forgotten
in the pages of large wise books
as poems. (...)

(...)



note: transcribe from ink marker black long hand writing September 20, 2015. (c) Copyright 1985 and 1987 THE PIPER ARTS AND LITERARY MAGAZINE, GUILFORD COLLEGE, WINTER OF 1987, EDITED BY DEMETRA GATES, SUPPORT FROM PHIL POLO A GREAT AMERICAN POET !!!