Friday, March 29, 2024

The Usual News

It was the usual morning news gone cold

at the reading of it. In the glen the heron

 

still marches on bent-pencil legs as below,

cut-throat trout watches, dangerously near,

 

arching her mouth open and closed

with her story on the state of things.

 

The usual news is heard so often our ears

and eyes have gone cold to all the terror:

 

Why guns and bombs get made.

How guns and bombs unmake.

 

J. Pratt-Walter 3/29/2024

Photo by me, Long Beach Peninsula



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