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This is what it looks like when national parks are sacrificed for a #borderwall. Footage at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument via Kevin Dahl, NPCA Arizona Senior Program Manager pic.twitter.com/VE9UKziPzl
— National Parks Conservation Association (@NPCA) October 4, 2019
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no need to migrate, so geese fly laps around the county
lake to lake at dawn, louder than garbage trucks.
A friend makes a demon cozy, so she doesn’t always have to face it.
She can know where it is even if she doesn’t know what it is
unlike mosquitos with valises full of Eastern equine encephalitis
come to visit. Swatting lunchmates, even on the face, becomes socially acceptable.
A friend draws stories with her own language of shapes not everyone can read.
That’s okay. Lilacs do not bloom this year; there is a mid-April blizzard.
Fawns come to the door wanting the cat to play. Children holding hands
walk across a lake of grass. Yard lights never let the trees sleep, not deeply.
A friend grieves deeply and with laughter, at once. She raises monarchs
and tonight the government will poison them as well as mosquitos.
On her balcony flickers and doves fight squirrels and raccoons for seeds
and a little honey. Tomorrow the butterfly rain.
lake to lake at dawn, louder than garbage trucks.
A friend makes a demon cozy, so she doesn’t always have to face it.
She can know where it is even if she doesn’t know what it is
unlike mosquitos with valises full of Eastern equine encephalitis
come to visit. Swatting lunchmates, even on the face, becomes socially acceptable.
A friend draws stories with her own language of shapes not everyone can read.
That’s okay. Lilacs do not bloom this year; there is a mid-April blizzard.
Fawns come to the door wanting the cat to play. Children holding hands
walk across a lake of grass. Yard lights never let the trees sleep, not deeply.
A friend grieves deeply and with laughter, at once. She raises monarchs
and tonight the government will poison them as well as mosquitos.
On her balcony flickers and doves fight squirrels and raccoons for seeds
and a little honey. Tomorrow the butterfly rain.
Elizabeth Kerlikowske most recent book is Art Speaks with painter Mary Hatch. She tries to live outside as much as possible while owning a house.