(For a dead comrade) This poem is for you Irwin Altman And for Ed “Foots” Lipman too For every poet who ever paced the cell blocks Of San Quentin, Folsom, Attica, and Neil Island Or gave his life in the peoples struggle Of Chile, Cuba or Nicaragua This poem is for those who walk the [...]
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SURVIVAL SONG by A.D. Winans
Posted in A.D. Winans, tagged poetry, winans on February 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Two Poems by A.D. Winans
Posted in A.D. Winans, tagged poetry on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
POEM FOR AN OLD LOVER She started off front-page news Became a crossword puzzle And then the obituary column until IOU’s became her calling card And debts accumulated like autumn leaves Buried in the bones of mutilated lovers A frail starving vampire searching For an open wound Leaving behind wolf tracks That courted the face [...]
POEM WRITTEN ON A DARK SUNDAY AFTERNOON by A.D. Winans
Posted in A.D. Winans, tagged poetry on November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So it has come to this 73 years, days and nights Of aches and pain Soon to turn seventy-four lady death a lurking whore harder still to write 73 years and I still haven’t got it down right wandering in sightless sight And I do not fear death I will fight her with every breath [...]
UN TITLED by A.D. Winans
Posted in A.D. Winans on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holy men on every street corner Selling fake myths Nuns in white with virgin toes And mushroom dreams inside Their loins I am being followed by Dick Tracy look-a-likes With flat feet and bug eyes The wolf’s plaintiff howl Haunts my dreams Evangelist’s pickpocket My empty wallet My one good eye Photographs the crime scene [...]
