Haruko/love Poetry
For HarukoLittle moves on sight blinded by histories as trivial or expansive as the rain seducing light into a blurred excitementThen she opens all of one eyeas accurate as longingas two hands beholden to the hunger of green leavesandrinsing them back into regular breath she who sees she frees each of these beggarly events cleansing them of dust and other deathPoem about ProcessAnd ProgressFor HarukoHey Baby you bettahurry it up!Becausesince you went totallyoffI seen a full moonI seen a half moonI seen a quarter moonI seen no moon whatsoever!I seen a equinoxI seen a solsticeI seen Mars and Venus on a lineI seen a mess a fickle starsand latelyI seen this new kind a luvaon an' off the telephonewho like to talk to meall the timereal niceResolution # 1,003I will love who loves meI will love as much as I am lovedI will hate who hates meI will feel nothing for everyone oblivious to meI will stay indifferent to indifferenceI will live hostile to hostilityI will make myself a passionate and eager loverIn response to passionate and eager loveI will be nobody's foolForewordWHAT IS THIS thing called love, in the poems of June Jordan, artist, teacher, social critic, visionary of human solidarity? First of all, it's a motive; the power Che Guevara was trying to invoke in his much-quoted "At the risk of appearing ridiculous . . . the true revolutionary is moved by great feelings of love." I think also of Paul "You think you are innocent if you say, 'I love this woman and I want to act in accordance with my love,' but you are beginning the revolution. . . . You will be driven to claim the right to a human act is to attack the forces responsible for all the misery in the world." Neither of them, admittedly, was claiming the love of a woman for women, the love of a man for men, as revolutionary, as a human act.But the motive is "directed by desire" in Jordan