Kenneth Lumpkin
Kenneth Lumpkin is an educator,
writer, poet, musician, freemason and activist. He has published four
collections of poetry to date: “Gather the Ashes”, 1984, winner of the Louis
Ginsberg Memorial Fellowship from the Chaucer Guild, “Song of Ramapough: A
Poetics of Place”, 2016, “Love
Lake”, 2017 and “God Has
Many Names” 2018. He teaches anthropology online through two New Jersey state universities and resides in
London, Ontario
with his wife, Kim and cat, Nala.
Two poems by Kenneth Lumpkin
Meridians
are certain lines
through the body
they are pathways
of energy: qi
or what a map maker
places on the body
of his map:
itself
not being the territory
and not merely
a map
but the pathways
we are to follow
if we are to mind
our Meridians
A Dutch
woodcut:
two men
at table
the universe
before them
underneath
a dog sleeps
in a pool of
exhaustion
it’s summer
the church
bells are
silent,
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