Nobody Riding the Roads Today Poem by June Jordan

Nobody Riding the Roads Today

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Nobody riding the roads today
But I hear the living rush
far away from my heart
Nobody meeting on the streets
But I rage from the crowded
overtones of emptiness
Nobody sleeping in my bed
But I breathe like windows
broken by emergencies
Nobody laughing anymore
But I see the world split
and twisted up like open stone
Nobody riding the roads today
But I hear the living rush
far away from my heart

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Susan Williams 28 December 2015

She has a glorious way of coming up with new ways to describe ordinary things: I breathe like windows broken by emergencies

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