Zoe Canner
the dreamers are out in the suburbs
pouring onto
these streets
chanting
let us stay here
let us stay here
they look down
at the sun
through view-finders
watching the
weeping leaves
mark pavement
in a crescent shimmy
and this is the only
home they know
Zoe Canner is an angry, anti-racist, 3rd Generation Holocaust Survivor. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Naugatuck River Review, The Laurel Review, and Arcturus of the Chicago Review of Books. She is an alumna of CalArts, Directors Lab West, and The Home School. She lives in Los Angeles where she indulges in hilly walks at dusk when the night-blooming jasmine is at its peak fragrance.
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