Jonathan Rentler
mow us down
or try
for your towers of power
are just quaking stocks
on land of the filched
& paved
& our crowns
lie close to the ground
fingers rooting deep
grasping till clasping
one & all
in the unseen below
for we know
who really holds earth
in their hands
Jonathan Rentler is the author of the chapbook Times Square Words# 1 (Yonkers International Press/Blurb 2017). His work has appeared in LOLA, Babbling of the Irrational, Fickle Muses, I-70, Ganymede, Unlikely Stories 2.0, and Midnight Muse.
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