Solidarity
For Roberto Vargas
when trees bend funny and out of shape
when lightblue skies turn blueblack gray
hungry winds will
knock behind the bellycaves
of coffee colored strangers
and hurricanes will come
and speak no english
Notes:
“Solidarity” was originally published in Migrant Worker (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 1978) and is part of the folio “E. Ethelbert Miller: Friendship Is What Keeps Us Whole.” Read the rest of the folio in the November 2025 issue of Poetry.
Source: Poetry (November 2025)