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| Cartoon by J.D. Crowe |
in my head
where each brick
contains an insecurity.
I say they are drugs
and rape
and murder
but they also contain
my weight
my thinning hair
and my feeble resolve
which might be remembered
on the border there
between poverty and privilege
as nothing
but grievance and rage.
I want a monument
because gold
doesn’t please me anymore
and if enough debt
gets mixed into the mortar
the wall will divide generations
and then they’ll remember me
as the one
that got this thing done.
David Feela writes a monthly column for The Four Corners Free Press and for The Durango Telegraph. A poetry chapbook Thought Experiments won the Southwest Poet Series. The Home Atlas appeared in 2009. A collection of his essays How Delicate These Arches was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Unsolicited Press will release his new chapbook Little Acres in April 2019.
