For Adi
That moment
when out of Nowhere
you feel deeply Alone
you don’t know why
but you know
your life
has changed
never to be
what it was-
Never
the irrevocable
shift
into a New World
bringing
Responsibility
All At Once
a concept so unknown
so remote
so Massive
Fear Coated with Dread
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and yet somewhere
Hidden
deep deep down
a miniscule seed
set Aglow
with Worth
Satisfaction
even Joy
in the budding
capacity
as Life Giver
Art Work by Yaron Rosner
Swaying on the floor of the lake
among soft
and blackened leaves
I wait
Battle, a thing of the Past
faded weapons
dampened alarm
the sirens quiet at last,
Vigilance Dissolved
into rolling liquid
my body surrenders
wavers to the current’s
Hold
breathing a deeper breath
even anticipation has melted,
lulled weightless by the water
no delay, just lingering
I wait
Art Work By Jessica Hengen
To the Inhabitants of the Great North American East
In the Bleak, see acrimonious,
terrain of March,
(a March still frozen, encrusted
with swathes of rancid snow)
there is no Promise
no hope, just desolation,
what appears a permanent
Wasteland
shows no signs
of its Gestating depths
of the buried Life
deep at work,
unalterably,
renewing itself
Sap Rising
that mounting Force
Strong As Life Is Strong
Indomitable as it is,
mirrors our Wonder
at seeing it burst
forth, when desperate
and wasted,
we least expect it
Photograph by Pattie Schaefer