Construction Stuff

    When I think of construction

   I think of grunting, spitting and hollering,

        Men in overalls strutting slouching, pointing,

 I think of laying floors, plastering walls, sanding

I think of breaking down left wing panels and

       Wallpapering right wing partition fortifications

  I think of painting over things past to create 

            A pseudo phantasm of things present

               I think of cladding, wrapping pipes and erecting pipe ducts

                  Pounding steel rods into reluctantly receptive grounds

  Constructing precarious structures that might soon

  Crumble under Mount Vesuvius like destruction of

       A Roman city in seventy-nine Anno Domini…

   Or is this simply a construction of the deconstruction of

  A soon to be dissolution of our democracy?!

Jacques Fleury is a Boston Globe featured Haitian American Poet, Educator, Author of four books and literary arts student at Harvard University online. His latest publication “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self” & other titles are available at all Boston Public Libraries, the University of Massachusetts Healey Library, University of Wyoming, Askews and Holts Library Services in the United Kingdom, The Harvard Book Store, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Amazon etc… He has been published in prestigious publications such as Spirit of Change Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Litterateur Redefining World anthologies out of India, Poets Reading the News, the Cornell University Press anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene among others…Visit him at:  http://www.authorsden.com/jacquesfleury.–