Attica


A long car turns
into the short
fresh blacktop

A family gets in to go
one boy & one tomboy

"The farmhouses are
gaunt and sad."

We're strangers
but no stranger than
the hall where we stand
foolish, without purpose

What will happen has
happened already

The men have been
stripped and marched
separated by white guards
according to
what they have done

We, suckers, still stuck
in the hallway
will have to watch
and watch again.

Keeping the dream.

Rachel Levitsky lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of two chapbooks, 2[1x1] Portraits (Baksun, 1997) and The Adventures of Yaya and Grace (Potes and Poets, 1999).