Prison Years

[for William Kunstler]

for William Kunstler

Death
has come into my life.
Not the dragon Fear-of-Death.
Not the napalm raining from the sky Death-in-War.
Not the cold dark Death-as-Rest-from-Pain.

But the sudden death of old men,
the brutal, here just last year gossiping and storytelling
now empty—
Gloria’s Bob, from drink, at last,
Marguerite’s John, after her cancer passing,
now Bill, the old fighter.

When I lived on borrowed time
no death—untimely or inevitable—
surprised me
as if we were all dead
already.

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About Katherine Power

I didn’t set out to be a terrorist. As a student activist, I moved from protesting the war in Viet Nam to waging guerrilla war to overthrow the government….

Recent and Upcoming Appearances & Publications
3/12/19 Peace, Justice and Transformation, Parallel Conference to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 777 United Nations Plaza, NYC
11/13/18 A Journey from Guerrilla to Grandmother, Lifelong Learners: An Independent Collaborative, Temple Shir Tikva, 141 Boston Post Road, Wayland, MA 01778
10/10/18 Provincetown Women’s Week Reading from Doing Time:Papers from Framingham Prison, AMP, 432 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA
4/6-9/2018 The Nature of Change, Radical Imagination Conference, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1/15/2014 Complexity and Social Change, Occupy Radio
10/31/2013 Surrender, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
10/25/2013 Surrender, Taos Community Theater, Taos, NM

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