I’m pleased to announce I have another poem published in Suburban Witchcraft Magazine. It’s called, We Do Not Fear History, and it’s one you can expect to hear me performing with my drumming/creative partner D. Berger (whose latest album release can be heard here in its entirety for free, fyi) sometime soon, as we are moving into phase two of our jazz/poetry project.
Read the entire poem at Suburban Witchcraft Magazine by following this link and heading to page 12. Many thanks to the editors there. Here’s a snippet of the longer poem you can read right now, though. Thanks for reading!
we do not fear scars left from injuries, given nor received;
we do not fear the shackles nor the cuffs,
we do not fear conversations too uncomfortable to touch, nor too sharp to hold and to nurture into a reasonable shape to discuss;
we do not fear criticism
we do not fear fame
we do not fear falling nor failing
we do not fear shame;
we do not fear ignorance, so easily gained, so easily lost,
we do not fear feelings that come with a cost, nor those not wrangled by words, nor those layered like reflections in a window display in a photograph in a frame in the sun that you still somehow remember, still today
Chris Bevens | pedalpoet 