Haruko/Love Poems (High Risk Books)

Haruko/Love Poems (High Risk Books)

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<DIV><P><B>For Haruko</B></P><p>Little moves on sight<br> blinded by histories<br> as trivial or expansive<br> as the rain<br> seducing light<br> into a blurred excitement</P><p>Then<br> she opens<br> all of one eye<BR> as accurate as longing<BR> as two hands beholden to the hunger of green leaves</P><p>and<BR> rinsing them back<br> into regular breath<br> she who sees<br> she frees each of these<br> beggarly events<br> cleansing them<br> of dust and other death</P><p><B>Poem about Process<BR> And Progress<BR> For Haruko</B></P><p>Hey Baby you betta<BR> hurry it up!<BR> Because<BR> since you went totally<BR> off<BR> I seen a full moon<BR> I seen a half moon<BR> I seen a quarter moon<BR> I seen no moon whatsoever!</P><p>I seen a equinox<BR> I seen a solstice<BR> I seen Mars and Venus on a line<BR> I seen a mess a fickle stars<BR> and lately<BR> I seen this new kind a luva<BR> on an' off the telephone<BR> who like to talk to me<BR> all the time</P><p>real nice</P><p><B>Resolution # 1,003</B></P><p>I will love who loves me<BR> I will love as much as I am loved<BR> I will hate who hates me<BR> I will feel nothing for everyone oblivious to me<BR> I will stay indifferent to indifference<BR> I will live hostile to hostility<BR> I will make myself a passionate and eager lover<BR> In response to passionate and eager love</P><p>I will be nobody's fool</P><p><B>Foreword</B></P><p>WHAT 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 assertion: "At the risk of appearing ridiculous . . . the true revolutionary is moved by great feelings of love." I think also of Paul Nizan: "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 back: 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.</P><p>But the motive is "directed by desire" in Jordan</DIV>