by Andrés Castro
For Julian Assange
Under a falling red sun,
in the stench of decomposing
leaves and muddy
dark earth,
He turns over a stone. See!
Circling white centipede—
Dancing black spider—
Tangle of worms
scrambling.
Andrés Castro, a PEN member, is listed in the Directory of Poets and Writers. His work appears in the recently released anthology We are Antifa: Expressions Against Fascism, Racism and Police Violence in The United States and Beyond and he keeps a personal blog, The Practicing Poet: Dialogue to Creativity, Poetry, and Liberation.
