Two Poems: Making a Stand & An American Nightmare
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Orbis, Dalhousie Review and Connecticut River Review. Latest books, “Leaves On Pages” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon.
By John Grey
MAKING A STAND
that’s either your neck
with the life squeezed out of it
or you are on the side
of the knee
AN AMERICAN NIGHTMARE
been no lynching in your lifetime,
yet those executions follow you,
on streets like branches
stretching high and far
from a trunk that goes back years,
dangling nooses that weren’t there yesterday