Truncated Lives
Those millions who,
because of
color,
belief,
origin,
differentness,
hated
by imagination,
were chosen,
among all people,
to be example
forever,
of inhumanity
to fellowman,
castigated,
isolated,
in separation,
to die.
Me and Melanin
I’m known
for the slight amount
of melanin
in my skin.
In fact
I’m proud
to have so little!
SO pale!
YOU
are the opposite
of me
and have abundance.
I hate you.
I will enslave you,
hate you,
and kill you
for the melanin
in your skin.
Duane L. Herrmann, is a survivor who lived to tell, and loves the pure light of the moon – and trees. He creates from his knowledge and experience. His collections of poetry include: Ichnographical:173, Prairies of Possibilities, and Praise the King of Glory. Individual work is published in Midwest Quarterly, Little Balkans Review, Flint Hills Quarterly, Orison, Inscape and others in print and online in the US and elsewhere, in English and other languages. He received the Robert Hayden Poetry Fellowship, the Ferguson Kansas History Book Award and nominated to be Poet Laureate of Kansas.
