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August 22, 2008
If A Lettuce
Seems like it's Poetry Friday here at NoLandGrab.
Brooklyn poet Benjamin Gantcher has published If a Lettuce, a book of poems from which he'll be donating all profits to Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn's legal fight against the Atlantic Yards project. The book is available locally at Park Slope's Community Bookstore (143 7th Avenue) and Unnameable Books (456 Bergen Street). Here's the title poem.
If a lettuce
in the garden "looks" at the moon
before it sleeps and dreams of the farmer
with his bite at the weeds that comes so close,
with merciless unroots that thud the dirt,
does the lettuce love a lettuce moon
planted in the night,
with runners poking up as stars,
and open gladly when the moon is strong
and pity when the moon is eaten?
NoLandGrab: Unnameable Books is the first business we've come across that uses "the Atlantic Yards landgrab" as a wayfinder on its web site.
Posted by eric at August 22, 2008 9:26 AM