Two starlings fight over
a chicken leg bone

I watch from the bus window
at a stoplight of a busy intersection

on a bus tour of Rubbertown,
Louisville, Kentucky

a community tucked between
smoke stacks and sludge ponds

hearing stories about pollution and
poverty and unrelenting

policies protecting money,
the same story here in the city edges

woven through Appalachian hills,
all of us hollering for change.