Rochelle Owens is the award-winning author of many controversial and innovative plays and a pioneer in the experimental Off-Broadway movement. She has published nine books of poetry, the most recent being the series The Joe Chronicles.
From “Telling the Secret Backwards”:
One day I’ll forbid
the secret, I’ll tell the secret BACKWARDS
my fever
haunts every night I must be seen castoff
half-filled
the experyence
moves toward the third
bad angel
warm eyes of the secret
flooding compassion mandrake juice
I must be seen
by the real KING