Every religion has a holy writ. The Hip Hop Manifesto. (2011)
"And the signs said that the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls...and tenement halls."--Simon and Garfunkel
Grafitti...much older than Nefertiti. Hot like ziti.
The mind bakes and makes it meaty.
Modern runes for modern tunes,
Written and then uttered so they flutter under modern moons.
In barrel fires...not as hot as the ire that burns...
Within the heart of a curb-side sire.
Caligraphy curves, swerves...made majestic,
A wish in a petri dish makes it septic
'Till it grows and flows out of the can onto the concrete
Or the brick or metal. That's wear the mind meets
The medium. Where creation finds its form.
A weather of words that finds its storm.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
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