VARIATION ON A THEME BY MILOSZ MISQUOTED BY ROBERT HASS
Lunch Poems Reading Series, Berkeley 2004
O to see through teargas! The color flash grenade—
wait—
O to see through teargas the flash grenade transfigure what was once
in colored Oakland the flooded street ablaze!
The numbing quiet spilled from flesh the stun grenade
ripped open. O molten scent of what it stung—
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About "Variation on a Theme by Milosz Misquoted by Robert Hass," Bradley Harrison Smith writes:
This poem is written after a Robert Hass reading in 2004 in which he attempted to recite a translation of Czeslaw Milosz by memory but messed up and had to restart. It is dedicated to Scott Olsen, the former Marine and Iraq War vet who sustained a skull fracture in the Occupy Oakland protests due to police brutality.
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