Category: War & Politics
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Gibson’s war
After the war, After bodies were cleared, Mass graves dug up, Photographed and catalogued. After the rubble was pushed aside, and reconstruction begun, You found an abandoned instrument with broken strings. Because this was all you could handle and it did not stink of death, You thought of all the songs it had sung Cradled…
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Listening to the BBC
Glenn was an adolescent cool boy We met In seventh grade band He was smarter than me Played clarinet better than I played trombone In science class, we learned Descartes Tortured animals in the pursuit of knowledge _____ My friend would tell stories of tying cats tails together Lighting them on fire to watch them…
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gun control
High above a grove of cedars You see a flock of crows Circling a tall tree This must be what they call A murder of crows You worry about their victim But walk on and Can no longer see the crows Or worry about their victim 6-9-22
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how we engender unity
“Confront power,” they say “Bring down the power,” they say and you become the power the problem the target “Find another way,” I say 6-21-22
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larva
Excuse me, I fantasize I saw your mother Before Autumn’s Killing frost Perched high up On a bush Warming herself In early morning light Unfolding her wings …to soar 7-27-22 from my morning walking meditation and thinking of the attack on women’s rights
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White shadow dancers
When you first learned of World War II and the cost of winning the war you would lie on the living room floor watch dust motes above your head shimmer in the sunlight and imagine white shadow dancers the same age as yourself traced upon the ground no longer able to dance. 8-6-22 August 6th…
My husband's poetry 