Poems: Excerpts from poets.org found November 2020

"Dear New Blood"

by Mark Turcotte

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4th stanza copied in]

Wake me. Bang my dead drum drum,

clang clang my anvil my bell. Shout me

hush me your song, your shiny

impossible, your long, wounded song.

Tell me everything you know, you

don’t. Tell me, do you feel conquered

and occupied? Maybe I’ve forgotten.

Sing it plain, has America ever let you

be you in your own sky?

[2 more stanzas]

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This is an excerpt. Read the other stanzas at:

https://poets.org/poem/dear-new-blood