In the afternoon when you remove
your glasses the Russian soldiers
march into Ukraine. Now is the time
to hide the jazz instead of walking
the dog. There is always something
artificial about human intelligence
which is why there is always another
war sunbathing somewhere. If we
must surrender to strangers let it
only be for love.
E. Ethelbert Miller was born in the Bronx and educated at Howard University. He is the author of 13 books of poetry, two memoirs, and edited 3 anthologies. Miller has taught widely and for 40 years was director of Howard University's African-American Resource Center. A former editor of Poet Lore, the oldest poetry magazine in the U.S., he hosts the weekly radio show "On the Margin."
