Two Poems by Sandor Kanyadi

From Dancing Embers (Twisted Spoon Press, 2002)

"Unvaried Variation"
-Originally from Black-and-Red Verses" (1965-1972)

although the thunders have rolled on
and the lightning bolts have fizzled out
the evening still can make a child of
this old man with autumn hair and gout

standing int he same old hollow tree
where I was at the age of five
when I spent a long night crying
and shouting songs to stay alive

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"Should Be Abolished"
-Originally from Poems about Poetry (1974-1977)

not only punctuation marks
but capital letters basking
in class distinction
should be abolished
words should be stripped
naked just like
those deported