Danielle Legros Georges’s Poems

song of the gun

 

my eye

like a sculpture’s.

a recess. a gaping.

my maw. my jaw bone.

and dark

handle. a surprise?

why I do

the things

I do?

gun

 

is the son of a gun

a gun?

unlike the difference

and distance

between a socialist

and a socialite?

the shine at the end

of the latter

not at all the gist,

the meat

of the former, of

the matter?

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This page is dedicated to Danielle Legros Georges, co-founder of the TONIC and a guiding force behind its vision. These two poems were shared with us by Danielle with the hope that they would live here. We are honored to publish them and to carry her words forward as part of the journal she helped bring into being.