Tuesday, September 20, 2022

July the 5th 2022

The world as I know it is definitely changing. The death of Queen Elizabeth will bring profound shifts to England, and here in the US the ground is altering beneath us, too.


July the 5th 2022


Fog lies outside my windows

and inside my mind.


Last night's firework's display

watched with delight.


But what were we celebrating?


A country stepping backwards

with removal of a basic right

affecting women?


The loosened liberty to clutch

an AR-15 with its specter of death?


The rulings of this Supreme Court

Session hound me like unwanted smog.


No matter how hard I try to see

clearly, it clings to my surroundings

and will not dissipate.



Marilyn Aschoff Mellor


 

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