Bio
Jessamine O Connor's chapbooks Hellsteeth and A Skyful of Kites, are available from www.jessamineoconnor.com. Facilitator of the weekly Wrong Side of the Tracks Writers, she is also director of performance poetry/art/music ensemble The Hermit Collective. www.hermitcollective.weebly.com
Jessamine O Connor
Militant With Hope
after Anna Kisby
The hypocrisies are accumulating,
in small clusters, in heavy consuming units,
cluttering my cosy rooms,
half-wild garden, and
relationship.
I used to have more hope,
ferociousness, saw clearly
in black and white,
strode a straight
bright line,
had only derision for people like me,
who made good excuses,
grew comfortable,
and let apathy
crawl all over them.