Blue_in_Green

Posted bySynnika Alek-Chizoba LoftonPosted inmailbox weekly, PoemsTags:, ,

Listening to Blue in Green and Miles Davis
offers a glimpse of daylight. Coltrane

blows lightning. She says, “What are you
listening to?” I say, “Prelude to a Revolution.”

Subtle like God peeking through off-white
blinds, watching the aftermath of Creation.

I flip American channels: ICE Shoots
a Woman Fleeing the Scene. Venezuela

Agrees to Kiss the Boots of US imperialism.
Citizens Slang Cherry Pies with Polluted

Frosting. Head on a swivel. Balance on
a tightrope. Nothing gets lost in translation.

I live in this funky paradigm, addicted
to throwing my body into the machine’s

teeth, addicted to clenching both fists before
checking weather apps or going outside.

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Published by Synnika Alek-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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