Two 1/6/21 Haiku
Juan Manuel Pérez
March 11, 2021
if pumpkins could speak
would they protest for justice
systemic carving
a belief system
messages that might lack truth
cult of Saint Fake-News
Juan Manuel Pérez, a Mexican-American poet of indigenous descent and the 2019-2020 Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi, Texas, is the author of several books of poetry including two new books, SPACE IN PIECES (2020) and SCREW THE WALL! AND OTHER BROWN PEOPLE POEMS (2020).