Class Warfare

Class Warfare
by Derick Varn

Aphids have always balked at the
Oratory of flowers, how each petal
Must declare itself in unbleached
And unbroken terms. So they
Spent their days mudding foliage
In a great proletarian ravage.

Derick Varn has a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at Georgia College and State University, where he served as assistant editor for Arts and Letters: A Journal of Contemporary Arts. He has served as managing editor for the now defunct Milkwood Review. He won the Frankeye Davis Mayes/Academy of American Poets Prize in 2003 and has recently published poems in Backwards City Review and Unlikely Stories 2.0. He currently lives in Macon, Georgia, with his wife and cat. During the day he works as a secondary school teacher and, at night, he writes and paints..

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Aphids have always balked at the Oratory of flowers, how each petal Must declare itself in unbleached And unbroken terms. So they Spent their days mudding foliage In a great proletarian ravage.

Aphids have always balked at the
Oratory of flowers, how each petal
Must declare itself in unbleached
And unbroken terms. So they
Spent their days mudding foliage
In a great proletarian ravage.