Walk IV

Glowing red embers
Quickly burn out, beginning
A circular flight



November 19, 2008

Walk III

Smell the leaves burning
Listen as the brittle fire cracks
And the ash rises in the sky



November 19, 2008

Walk II

Feel the sun drifting
Away, see the change in light's
length and time's shape



November 19, 2008

Walk I

Walk on an autumn
Evening, feel the air chill
As the day shortens



November 19, 2008

Grant Park VIII

General Logan

Still stands on a grassy hill

A witness to the times.

November 18,2008

Grant Park VII

Young women dancing
Jesse Jackson's tears flow down cheeks
The millennium cloud gate reflects the joy.


November 8, 2008

Grant Park VI

Forty years later
Barack Obama celebrates his election
In the same Grant Park.


November 8, 2008

Grant Park V

Shock and awe at home
Cops beating the children
Seeing it on TV.


November 8, 2008

Grant Park IV

The whole world was watching
Boys in blue drawing blood with
Badges in their pockets.

November 5, 2008

Grant Park III

All around us were
Chicago's finest - a malevolent
sea of baby blue.

November 5, 2008

Grant Park II

Our uniform was sweaty t-shirts
and helmets of long matted hair
A chant cutting through the air.

November 5, 2008

Grant Park I

We rallied at the
stature of General Logan
We called out slogans.

November 5, 2008

The Bus II

Just one of the few
On the big yellow bus to school
the few who knew.

October 29,2008

The Bus

On the bus ride to
School - I often felt just like a fool
I was never alone.

October 29, 2008

Shirt V

Brushed corn silk hair

Frame s pale cheeks and aqua blue eyes

On a red pillow.

October 28,2008

Shirt IV

That reveals the true

Peace that lies within myself

Created by her touch.

October 27, 2008