July 4, 1974
July 4, 1974 Washington, D.C. At least it helps me to think about my son a Leo/born to us (Aries and Cancer) some sixteen years ago in St. John’s Hospital next to the Long Island Railroad tracks Atlantic Avenue/Brooklyn New York at dawn which facts do not really prepare you (do they) for him angry serious and running through the darkness with his own becoming light June Jordan, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan