On the occasion of Martin Luther King Day, Atlanta-based poet Franklin Abbott channels his friend and lover, the late Assoto Saint (pictured below):
Black is the Color
I go to Troublesome to mourn and weep . . .
— Scottish folk song popular in Appalachia
for Haiti
for Yves Lubin/Assotto Saint
beloved
your mother
has broken
her back
your father
died in your quiver
long before
you joined him
you beloved poet
Yves/Assotto
beyond time
whisper prayers
Rumi-like
a flute in the wind of my ear:
help my people
and the midnight art
of our magic
will set you
free
another eye opens 
February 23, 2010 at 10:21 pm
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