Poem A Day – Oct. 6, 2016
#MIDDLEBURY
The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood
Derrick Austin
There used to be no one here,
where cypresses and oaks play
shadow puppets on sawgrass.
You heard the music before
I ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 23, 2015
Taking My Father and Brother to The Frick
Derrick Austin
Disembark the Turners seem to say,
those starburst barges glowing in the dusk,
but I can’t read old Rembrandt,
his guarded ... Continue Reading →
