AFTER LIKUNT DANIEL AILIN
Sculpture by Kehinde Wiley, 2013
busted all
shoulder neck
and jaw head
erect gaze
to the right
to distance
he wears a
tunic like
a Roman
general
he wears an
afro like
J.J. from
Good Times his
afro wears
a comb way
in the back
dynamite
–Wendy Chin-Tanner
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Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the poetry collection Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards and co-author of the graphic novel American Terrorist (A Wave Blue World, 2012). Her work can be found at The Rumpus, The Collagist, Vinyl Poetry, RHINO Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Ampersand Review, The Margins, The Mays Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor at Kin Poetry Journal and poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown.
Editor’s Note: the poems which was in this post earlier today was originally published as part of this project two years ago. The current poem is the one that was supposed to run today. I apologize for the error.
