Rend: to rip, rive, tatter or tear
Rend
A mechanical Bobcat
growls on my neighbor's lawn.
Its maw, a baby T-rex in motion,
attacks a row of straggly lilacs
at their base. Lifting the bushes
up and away, it beetles back
to the dump truck, dangling
greens from its teeth, grass
flattened beneath its treads.
Not unlike today's talkshow
host chewing up a current
candidate holding an opposing
political position.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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