2 Poems by Dennis Paul Wilken |

Race Relations–a Portrait in Motion

My street is two-toned
But the white is starting to run.
Primer-painted Volkswagen buses
Loading up
And leaving their parking spots
to lime-green Cadillacs.


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Seven Years Bad Luck

I grew up on a
Dead end street
Where dead end folk
Refused to admit
That living where they did
Was in anyway
Symbolic.

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Dennis Paul Wilken is a Contributing Editor at CommonLine and a freelance journalist. His book Sweat Off The Diamond (2009), a collection of poetry, is available from Proletariat Press. New Work is forthcoming in Word Riot. Dennis lives in Seattle, Washington.