i should have stood in tel aviv

for rachel corrie
with the peace marchers
citizen vigilers
putting bodies against the tanks & rockets
last sunday
rejecting all the pretexts
for siege and invasion
wet dreams from self-inflated generals
made-in-america munitions manufacturers

she died as children all die
from beirut to gaza to haifa

your voice has reason
listen to it breathing

--- e b bortz

(published in opednews.com, March 18, 2013)

there's no security

in the old order
asphalt patched concrete
heaving up
from the mantle
pedestals by definition
are abused visions

broken tar
a melting planet
sunflowers
to be borne

--- e b bortz

(published in The City Poetry, issue 18, March 2007)

earth note 102

kayak cheating
drafting thru the lily pads
behind a dozen geese
snake-like
ripples kick up the carp
screwing in the shallows

by the time i returned for take-out
another goose rendezvous
readying for put-in
pecking shoreline heads
sift thru the grass
white bottoms in the air
wings drip
hot breeze

--- e b bortz