Saturday, July 30, 2022
Friday, July 29, 2022
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
a place of stillness
They didn't believe me
The two women who know me best
When I said I'm not worried
About what might go wrong
It's not helpful I said
And it's completely out of my hands
I have confidence in the neurosurgeon
So I do not dwell on the risks
You filled us in on everything
How you will fly across the country to his hospital
And stay in temporary housing while you recover
Waiting to get cleared to fly back
I can visualize him removing the tumor
While you are intubated immobilized on the table
While thirty-six other neurosurgeons there
Watch on screen learning the technique
I do feel calm considering the uncertainty
Seeing you are ready to do this
At least for now putting aside my fear
As if my demeanor might help you
To find a place of stillness
On the day of the operation
To feel me there with you
Breathing slow deep breaths
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Monday, July 25, 2022
what will it take
We watch the carp gasping for air
As we sweat through yet another day
Enduring this interminable heat wave
Too hot even in the early morning air
The warm water lacks dissolved oxygen
Suffocating the fish in the shallow lake
Even though this is the hardy survivor species
Able to tolerate what kills most others
The lake is drying up like a mud puddle
As the summer drought continues
Everything that grows thirsts for rain
While the climate crisis gets ever worse
All the fossil fuel that remains in the ground
Represents wealth owned as private property
And the billionaires in charge of decisions
Absolutely will not agree to take the loss
That is why the planet is burning up
As they obstruct and delay any serious action
Even though the undeniable cause has long been known
Even as the daily headlines shout global catastrophe
It took a civil war to put an end to slavery
Divesting the owners of their human property
Though much unfinished business remains
And exploitation remains a way of life
Now divesting the owners of their fossil fuels
Faces an intransigent invested opposition
Unmoved by human suffering and mass extinction
Answering only to their bottom line
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