Have you seen it?
Where once we had the complex nautilus spiral
of intention making love to words
reflecting the light of experience,
and beckoning us forward from one line
to the next and next
We now have
We now have the source
as the poem
that makes it a poem
by a Korean or Native or African American or
insert the colonized here
let it be gay or crippled or both
a pretty good poem by a quadriplegic, lesbian
negress married to a Choctaw woman with
irritable bowel syndrome is
way better than a great poem
by a European American
cis gendered
working class
oppressor
All we need to ask ourselves,
is it good
does it make our heart sing
will we remember it at breakfast
do we smile
do we cry
God save us from
the new
style
