Poet’s Showcase
Stationary Front
By Larry Rochelle
next to weather maps
spread outward from oak chairs,
near power pinnacles,
lie orifices of the poor, most
bleeding from blows struck
for freedom, blows too granite-tough
to avoid, night
wounds in the middle of poverty,
votes of constituents blunted by
whispered corridor words,
and nothing counted after all.
– Larry Rochelle, author of “I Got Da Ever Lovin’ KC Blues,” is a Johnson County Community College English professor.