Calling on All Silent Minorities
HEY
C’MON
COME OUT
WHEREVER YOU ARE
WE NEED TO HAVE THIS MEETING
AT THIS TREE
AIN’ EVEN BEEN
PLANTED
YET
■
HEY
C’MON
COME OUT
WHEREVER YOU ARE
WE NEED TO HAVE THIS MEETING
AT THIS TREE
AIN’ EVEN BEEN
PLANTED
YET
■
Sometimes a poem is a seed. “Calling All Silent Minorities” appears in poet June Jordan’s 1974 collection New Days: Poems of Exile and Return.