Two 1/6/21 Haiku

Written By Laurence Musgrove

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).

Laurence Musgrove
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