Poems

Nobody Riding the Roads Today

By June Jordan

Nobody riding the roads today
But I hear the living rush
far away from my heart
Nobody meeting on the streets
But I rage from the crowded
overtones of emptiness

Nobody sleeping in my bed
But I breathe like windows
broken by emergencies

Nobody laughing anymore
But I see the world split
and twisted up like open stone

Nobody riding the roads today
But I hear the living rush
far away from my heart

Credits

"Nobody Riding the Roads Today" from Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems by June Jordan, edited by Sara Miles and Jan Heller Levi, Copper Canyon Press, 2005. (c) 2005, 2021 June M. Jordan Literary Estate Trust. Used by permission. www.junejordan.com