By Anna Cates
Wilmington, Ohio, USA
“Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.”
—Loudon Wainwright III
Time moves counterclockwise to heal the breach.
Do we dare to name it, to face what we betray?
Toxic world; do we dare to eat a peach?
Time moves counterclockwise to heal the breach
While those who long for doomsday reach—
The fruition of our blunder, Orwellian, they say.
Time moves counterclockwise to heal the breach.
Do we dare to name it, to face what we betray?
golden tones
of a seaside sparrow
who will listen?