2013 Contest

Making Work Visible

City University of New York / Labor Arts

Ricci L. Niles

Poetry Third Place

Ricci L. Niles

Writing and Literature, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Cardinal Points

Cardinal Points

“The slave deck of the bark ‘Wildfire’” by Harper’s Weekly, date illegible (1800s)

Ships and galleys were the original Skull and Bones Society.

People, sold, wholesale: “To the Trade Only”

The Atlantic—
watershed moments.

Mausoleums in
wave after wave after more waves
Still.

Atoning for nothing
the indifference of the surf
the irreverence of the tides

a co-defendant
the Sea offers up
no audible apologies.

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