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