Prison Years

Lascaux

You knew
You knew and you drew on rock wall
By guttering lamplight
The true shape of beasts in flight

You knew
Hunter who had for life itself to know
As no modern day effete with oils and detail can know
That shape-in-motion and being the beast and desiring the beast and painting out that desire on rock in fervent prayer
is art.

I tour museums.
I wander through room after room of schools and movements and monuments,
Gaze upon the sacred paintings of the Longed-for of newer ages
and feel stupid.

I come at last to the cool dim cave of Lascaux
I press my face to your rock
Place my hand on your pigment beast
and rest.

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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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