Amiri Baraka River Poems

  • 1.
    I am inside someone
    who hates me. I look
    out from his eyes. Smell
    what fouled tunes come in
    ...
  • 2.
    Where ever something breathes
    Heart beating the rise and fall
    Of mountains, the waves upon the sky
    Of seas, the terror is our ignorance, that's
    ...
  • 3.
    She stands beside me, stands away,
    the vague indifference
    of her dreams. Dreaming, to go on,
    and go on there, like animals fleeing
    ...
Total 3 River Poems by Amiri Baraka

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