Hank Lazer

Two Poems
August 25, 2025 Lazer Hank

burdens are from                    12.7.2024 (2)
god the assassin
escaped taking a
bus to another
city we wait
to see what
the rich men
will do to
us she cares
for a family
of feral cats
there are few
who cannot stand
music great waves
arise near the
old lighthouse in
every instance someone
takes a risk
his words resurfaced
after twenty years
linearity can only
be imagined cold
weather means good
lettuce & rainbow
chard get in
line to fill
your bag this
is really it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to will these                            12.19.2024
words across time
as children we
walked & balanced
upon the iron
rails of the
train track to
will these words
along an unknown
way i ask
again where does
our reading go
you are what
you remember &
what you call
to mind &
what you cannot
remains equally present
she told me
about the image
of the lotus
blossom from above
& below the
water line

Hank Lazer has published thirty-four books of poetry, including P I E C E S (BlazeVOX, 2022), When the Time Comes (Dos Madres Press, 2022), field recordings   of mind   in morning (with 15 music-poetry tracks with Holland Hopson on banjo – available from Bandcamp and on YouTube), COVID 19 SUTRASSlowly Becoming Awake (N32), and Poems That Look Just Like Poems. (To order books, learn about talks, readings, and workshops, and see photos of Duncan Farm see Lazer’s website: https://www.hanklazer.com