Down The Long Night
Written By: Gloria Keeley
About the Author: I’m a graduate of San Francisco State University with a BA and MA in Creative Writing. My work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Slipstream, FORUM and other journals. I graduated from CCSF and I taught at CCSF for 34 years and was the editor of FORUM in 1969.
Down the Long Night
think beehive and
private tiny entrances
the Poseidon of the garden
through the maze
the span to the end
a trail of stings
four quiet wings
flap timpani
float nectar to nectar
returning to their hive
crab-cracking percussion
shakes down their dreamland
notes progress horizontal
soft now, like cotton
“Nature Boy” by Miles Davis
lulls baby bees to sleep
Visual Art Piece “Lawson” By: Erick Orihuela
About the Artist: Erick Orihuela is an Ethnic Studies and Film as Literature high school teacher. He grew up in the Mission District after moving from Mexico City. For him, teaching is a means of showing people his favorite philosophers: Frantz Fanon, Silvia Federici, San Te of the Shaolin Temple, and MF Doom. He takes pictures to better balance work and ludic activities.
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