the light belongs to you (for jasiri)

you were the flame before the phoenix, the boy who poured his heart into the sky. on the day you died, i tiptoed calmly through the forest of your memory then walked into the rising stillness of reality, the absence of your smile. tonight, i can not think of you without locking fingers with trees, […]

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Press: Young artist holds the spirit of poetry

December 16, 2007

By Marjory Wentworth A week or two after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, I heard Marcus Amaker perform his poem “jazz” at Monday Night Blues in downtown Charleston. He had composed the poem in the aftermath of the storm and all the horrors that followed. Marcus experienced the same disbelief and anger the rest of […]

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