I'm heavy today
like the air is water
or some more viscous, vicious fluid
did I sleep too deeply
woken too quickly?
Or has the full import
of this fearful fear
beginning its tidal wave
of destruction
hit?
Is it grief
for the vulnerable?
it is not despair!
Katherine, yes it's definitely a heaviness that we've woken up to today. Love the first stanza particularly - as well as the sentiments running throughout the piece. Great stuff!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kristen.
DeleteI am not convinced by the rest of the poem that the last line rings true! But the second last catches the nub, How will he treat minorities? How will Trump re-industrialise Ohio? (and give work to 95M unemployed elsewhere. And what about the environment, so vulnerable itself.
ReplyDeleteVery apt observation John! I will not despair. But how tribal we are becoming...
DeleteI love viscous and vicious there together....I'm glad it isn't despair we're feeling....
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