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Searching For The Miller's Sonnet


The other day I heard someone say,
“Did you hear that the baker
Has written a play?
Did you know the bartender
Can recite your favorite sonnet?”

But I wondered,

When will the bricklayers
Tell us the story of how
These walls came to be?

Not with eloquence
Or framed in filigree
But with tools and plans
And callous hands
Prying open paint cans

Like prisoners putting on a play
To make sense of the audience

When will the drivers
Whistle to the world the tune
That rides shotgun in their minds
When they cross state lines?

Where is the dance called,
“We don't want your bread”
Choreographed by the convict's wife
And dedicated to the state?

Where is the new rendition
Of an old song sweeping
The nation of electricians?

I don't know
Where to look these days

Who gets praise
And who gets raised
To say their peace
In ways without words?

If luck puts the pen
In the hand of the poet
And the shovel
On the shoulder of the miner,

Call it then the human spirit
That puts a song on all our lips
As tongue in cheek
We dance and fight
On the lawn of that
Terribly
White
House

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from Affirmations and Storms Returning, released May 5, 2018

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Eric George Burlington, Vermont

Eric George is a Vermont-based songwriter, sound engineer, and performer of original music and poetry. One of the most prolific folk musicians of the Northeast music scene, he is intent upon maintaining the integrity of American folk music while taking a contemporary approach to songwriting. ... more

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