Mary Ann Sullivan: THE FIRST POEM OF SUMMER
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The First Poem of Summer
a video|poem by Mary Ann Sullivan
© 2010 Mary Ann Sullivan
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July 8th, 2011 at 7:14 am
I love Ann Sullivan’s “First Poem of Summer”
It sends me to Lake Merritt in the center
of urban Oakland where young Oscar Grant
was shot in the back by police
and libraries threatened with closure
to rent a kayak and float among the birds.