free in philadelphia
poignancy visiting a nation’s birthplace
while on cnn cops are shooting unarmed teens
as trump rises
the country’s first stockmarket, the bourse,
now symbolically a shopping mall
with philly cheese steaks
a rushed visit downstairs to the restroom,
a full-length mirror mistaken for a doorway
and my skull splits at the eyebrow
a crack in the liberty bell
- Rob Walker 2018
Rob Walker has produced six poetry collections, the most recent being tropeland (Five Islands Press, 2015), Original Clichés (Ginninderra Press, 2016) and Policies & Procedures (Garron Publishing, 2016). His short fiction, memoir and essays have appeared in journals in the US and Australia and on ABC Radio National. He is one of a group of SA poets who will be reading their work at Adelaide Writers Week on March 6, 2018.
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