ORGANIZER: Maggie Cleveland
CONTACT: cleveland.maggie@gmail.com
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LOCATION: The Frederick Douglass Gallery at Gallery X, 169 William St. New Bedford, MA 02740 that would be great.
ORGANIZER: Maggie Cleveland
CONTACT: cleveland.maggie@gmail.com
TIME/DESCRIPTION: TBA
LOCATION: The Frederick Douglass Gallery at Gallery X, 169 William St. New Bedford, MA 02740 that would be great.
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Great! Post this on the home page of this blog too if you can. Best, Michael
Thanks — I certainly will!
I love this poem, Maggie! Good choice for Earth Day, too.
Razing the Mills
The wrecking ball
like a clumsy metronome
keeps time
in staggered beats
as it taps
the façade
of the monolith
with a heavy
kiss.
Asbestos laden
frames crack,
panes of glass and
floorboards steeped in
a hundred years of machine oil
and sweat
split,
tumble down the bones
of the behemoth,
slam the ground
and send a rumble
to the rocks
across the river.
What’s left is blasted to bits –
bulldozed, swept
into tall piles,
shoveled into trucks
and hauled away,
or blown by handfuls
into the wind
with a wish
that they won’t
fill the hole
with poison this time,
that what’s built
in its flattened place
won’t be an empty box
of concrete and glass
with a sun bleached
“for lease”
sign in the window –
this year, the air
is tinged in color,
even the tips
of the seagulls’ wings
are red.
-Maggie Cleveland
(first published in Amerarcana: A Bird & Beckett Review, 2010)