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| Cartoon by Chip Bok. |
Man-made
wind turbines
stand erect
in farm fields
like robotic soldiers
on high alert for
a spin at certain
death.
Bodies
of unsuspecting
victims collect –
bloodied
at the base
of these warlords;
the ones
that harness the wind,
to power human interests,
but strip the life
from natural flight –
collateral damage
in a war to save
the environment
from toxins and
corporate greed.
Lylanne Musselman is an award winning poet and artist, who lives in Toledo, Ohio. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Literary Brushstrokes, Pank, New Verse News, Cyclamens & Swords, and The Prose-Poem Project among others, and many anthologies. She is the author of three chapbooks, and a co-author of Company of Women: New & Selected Poems (Chatter House Press, 2013). Presently, she is Coordinator of Creative Writing at Terra State Community College, and teaches online writing courses for Ivy Tech Community College, while diligently working on a full length poetry memoir.