by Luke North*
Does life
Present itself to you
As a personal equation — Continue reading
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A Million Jobless Men
by Luke North
A million jobless men –
On twenty-three hundred million acres of idle earth
Rich with unworked mines,
Webbed with highways and railroads, Continue reading
Omitted from the Spoon River Anthology
by Luke North
Luke North was the pseudonym of James H. Griffes, the prolific Single Tax activist, editor and poet of the first three decades of the 20th century. Spoon River Anthology (1915) by Edgar Lee Masters, is the celebrated collection of short poems in the form of epitaphs of the members of a small midwestern town, delivered by the dead themselves. Continue reading