Poetry in Motion

Fresno

Poverty

Suzanne Lummis
A two-toned purple poster features the poem, Poverty by Suzanne Lummis, written in white text.

Poverty

It rains.

A stain

          appears on my
ceiling
like the map of
a
country people want

out of.


"Poverty" by Suzanne Lumis from In Danger, published by Roundhouse Press. Copyright © 1999 by Suzanne Lummis. Reprinted with the permission of the author.