Chained for singing
clear minor notes
welling from sweet young throats
and mouths which have tasted
the tightness of screaming silences
and still songs soar
skyward
reeling remembering revealingWomen sing songs
reeling
remembering
revealinglullabies lovesongs
blues songs
chants cantillating songs
of exiled lives
and martyrs' death
Voices search out sounds
not yet noted on bars
not yet ordered on scales
they resound through zionist hell
demanding Palestine be freeSummer 1988
Marilyn's home page, her Wild Poppies poetry CD, other poems, Rescue the Word, writings on prison control units, on "Legal Issues for Women in Federal Prison", "On the Burning of African-American Churches".
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