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| Image source: Tehran Times, April 22, 2020 |
A truth we’d rather see removed
now stares us in the face:
how much the planet is improved
without the human race.
Now hatchling turtles on the beach
escape in seaward flight.
In Africa’s deserted streets
the lion sleeps tonight.
Now dolphins leap from their lagoon
and wave excited tails,
while goats go sauntering among
the shuttered shops of Wales.
So every passing day would find
the earth more fresh and green
if only all of humankind
would stay in quarantine.
Gail White is a formalist poet and a contributing editor to Light. Her most recent collections are Asperity Street and Catechism. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, with her husband and cats.