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The Price of Gas
February 25, 2022

No one is to blame for anything anymore.
Or is it that everyone is to blame for everything?
Maybe the world has gotten too small: so many billions
of us, incomprehensible to ourselves, let alone
one another, crowded together

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Be The Change  / poetry

Ukraine
February 22, 2022

long before the stamps commemorating peace,
before factories resumed churning out grenades,
some made off with blueprints for conquest,
taped them to the walls of their dreams

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The Mantra of Tomorrow
February 12, 2022

I’ve been unkind to the ants swarming
the plates I left unwashed: stamped a
a few dozen to death, left the others
scurrying, confused, and hungry

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Orange Tree
February 6, 2022

By where we put out the trash
there is a fragrant orange tree.

On Monday mornings the street
smells of fresh fruit and rotted fruit

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Resurrection
February 5, 2022

I read poems on a bench in unexpected heat,
winter-pale skin growing pink, then red,
like a sunset spreading across me.

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The Business of Life and Death
January 31, 2022

Suppose I grant you the premise of your question.

Should I gather up my limbs at once
and build something immortal with them?

What could I construct to outlast
the drowsy calm of this moment?

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Love Poem Written on a Board Resolution
January 29, 2022

Three-hours and $300 in legal fees into working on a resolution for my nonprofit to add “Inc” to its name in order to complete a filing with the State of Connecticut, I step to the window, standing there like a […]

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To-Do List
January 23, 2022

Sort the mail. Wash the dishes. Turn off the lights.
Set your alarm to rise before the rooster.
Dying is but another errand to run.

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Elephant
January 20, 2022

Out of the blue our three-year-old
declares he doesn’t like the elephant.

For days he repeats—unbidden, as if recalling
a nightmare—that he doesn’t like the elephant.

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MLK Day, 2022
January 17, 2022

Every year the same poem, the same
lament, the same sickness. What if

things don’t get better, merely more
tolerable? What if we lay down our

lives and nothing grows over us—

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