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Monday, April 09, 2018

SO TWO GOATS WERE STUCK ON A BEAM UNDER A BRIDGE

by Jill Crainshaw


Amidst a turbulent week on Wall Street, two goats were found stranded on a bridge beam in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Goat photo source: Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission via NPR.

stormy
with a chance of thundersnow
these are the headlines we are living in
curators clamoring for credibility on facebook fake newsfeeds
talking heads trading on trending turbulence
the bald eagle has landed—on the mariners shoulder—looking for bears
hugging the life out of
fragile economies
while easter bunnies on the loose quadruple a towns investment
a teenagers hair creates a buzz breaking into the prophetic sound of her silence
as bells toll to remember the king who had a dream that one day—one day—
and a presidents goldilocks
blow in the

wind


Jill Crainshaw is a professor at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, NC.