skip the irony of the laboratory
and the four hundred bucks.

As I was sayin papichulo
My pussy’s got a name
But you don’t know it / never bothered to ask
 

In the living room between separated couches,
Sun beaming on the wall while suspense arouses.

Barreling like gut born love songs
Your ancestors are smiling
As we pass the time
When we ride
It's language

Tribes' fearless leader, "Blind Guy," Steve Cannon penned this poem to accompany David Hammons' exhibit on Charles White and Leonardo DaVinci at the Museum of Modern Art. Dig it!

My hands are hardened to the springtime task

Of ripping out dead wildflower stalks

Leftover from last fall.

exhausted,

I watch you

Sleeping 

Vince, the teenager with ''exuberance'', was on the verge of plunging into the waters of decadence-----being friends with Oasis, his agemate and a juvenile with questionable character---until his parents sat him down to tell him their teenage stories---how they grew---experiencing the bad and ugly sides of life but became responsible as young adults and parents. Several years later,  Vince's tuned-new-leaf situation inspired him to write ''Family Tells A Story'', In Family Matters and Home Magazines.

I saw a play the other night
on Broadway and I learned
that the stage is within me
not in front of me

I cannot bring it to the international food fest

at the middle school; it will be returned

like the tea eggs after orchestra practice.

He calls out to all seated in silk and florals

To believe

Another life we have

Far greater and bigger than here

Beau Sia, Bob Holman and Steve during a recent visit at Tribes.

Check out Beau's 37 Poems for Steve Cannon on his YouTube Channel!

HERE

Meet Luciann Berrios - Astoria native and Tribes Poet.

The author of Negrophobia has run off 

with my Marxist roommate, but it's fine.  

I'm trying to

recapture the feel

of my body as silk

Some say a sad poem is slightly better than a bad poem.  I had the habit of writing both.

You are being led to yourself

putting things down and picking things up.