WHITE   VIOLENCE

by Janet Gunter





Seconds split
my better judgment
which worships beauty:
In the absense of color,
which calls for patient guessing.

I flood with light, blind in the
diffusion of freshly-fallen total light
which calls for restraint.

I scar.
I have stomped, slapped, scratched,
to see my own blood.
My jangling nerves, indentured.

Imperceptably, violently,
red erases white.




Janet Gunter can't stay awake very well. She's also "running away to Australia to throw a shrimp on the barby for the summer after graduation", and she loves to write and read.

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