Two Poems – Jason Braun

Frozen Assets – After Diego Rivera In New York even the corpses sparkle and whisper the mantra: greatest city, greatest city. The cranes don’t run on time, cops and bankers strike the protesters and some retreat to martinis in skyscraper bars and others, like the sad sack flatfoot, stutter, grunt, and tip back a flask on a crowded platform. Electric Power – After Diego Rivera Under the eclipse of Wall Street once invisible men arc the welding rods into god-blinding light. Behold all the skyline flashed in white-out as a transformer blinked twice then phoenixed.