Geese on River Birch South

Posted bySynnika Chizoba LoftonPosted inmailbox weekly, PoemsTags:, ,

A Monday night jones. Stepping
high, like a god organizes my steps.

These uncaged wings defy logic
and reason, resting on concrete

perch. I scowl. Beneath Greenbrier
haze. Street traffic growls along the

interstate. This state (of mind) is free.
The animals breathe. Capitalism stinks.

An urban mystic.       With cornrows.
With an Afro. Smoke swirling around

the forehead. The geese roam streets,
stretching out like royal subjects.

They got a different swag. Trying
to be volatile and ageless, like them.      

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Published by Synnika Chizoba Lofton

"Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton is an award winning poet, the president and CEO of Guerrilla Ignition LLC, host of a Nationally Syndicated radio show, and an educator, teaching literature at Chesapeake Bay Academy and English courses at Norfolk State University. Lofton has recorded more than one hundred and fifty CDs, albums, CD-singles, and mixtapes of poetry, including his highly praised debut, The New Breed. He is the author of twelve books and the founder of Riot Speech, a musical genre combining performance poetry with traditional musical forms, such as Rock, Jazz, and Hip Hop. His poems have been published in Experience Reality Magazine, Quay: A Journal of the Arts, UpStreet: A Literary Magazine, and, in 2014, Lofton has been featured in Blind Sided Magazine. He is a regular on Virginian television programs such as The Hampton Roads Show and Chesapeake’s Thinking Out Loud on WCTV. He teaches World Literature, British Literature, and Composition, while touring the country, performing at literary festivals, musical festivals, poetry readings, open mics, concerts, high schools, and colleges."

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