Sunday, September 05, 2021

loaves & fishes

a coffeehouse in the 60s
hidden away on bellefonte street pittsburgh
the room overflowing without notice
guitars picking through every polemic
a (pawn) chess piece sliding across the floor
a meeting of antiwar artwork without deferments
scattering in the night like four corners (plus one)
     of a pentagon
soldiers hanging on by sheer conscience
all leaves canceled at midnight
this outreach project years in the making
had john the baptist written all over it

--- e b bortz

2 comments:

Environmental Justice said...

I love this poem, Ed.

e b bortz said...

thanks!