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Juan Felipe Herrera

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Even the Gun Does Not Want to be a Gun
Even the Gun Does Not Want to be a Gun
June 9, 2013 Herrera Juan Felipe

Even the Gun Does Not Want to be a Gun

 

It denies the polish

Its seablood sculpted elegance the weight in blue machine

It ignores its howl if only it could truly sing

If only it knew more than one long word

Of one long dismembered song

Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, Emeritus. Recent book, Everyday We Get More Illegal (City Lights, SF.) Recent Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award – UC Riverside and LA Review of Books. Lives in Fresno, Ca. with his partner, poet, Margarita Robles.

Plume: Issue #24 June 2013

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