October 1, 2023 –
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This morning I woke to the first
real snowfall of the winter
although itâs almost March.
It stretched pretty and blinding
but I started seeds inside just
yesterday. Now frozen ground.
Everythingâs out of kilter.
Blizzard in Los Angeles
tornadoes every other day.
Weâve driven the earth crazy.
The morning news: whereâs
todayâs mass shooting?
School, synagogue, church,
mall, a parade, a park? If
a president or an actorâs
shot: big news. The rest
of us statistics, not nearly
rich enough to matter, only
to those who love us. But
not to those who make laws
that enable our deaths.
is the author of twenty books of poetry, most recently On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light, plus seventeen novels, a memoir, a short story collection, and five nonfiction books.
Source: Monthlyreview.org
