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| “Shelter in Place,” by Christoph Mueller |
Maybe the meek will inherit the earth.
Peacocks strut through the streets of Dubai.
Peacocks have strutted, but not in Dubai.
Twenty ducks quack in unison in Wales.
The twenty ducks aren’t wailing. They’re quacking.
And mountain goats have descended into Bern.
The goats aren’t causing shops to burn or collapse.
Christchurch rabbits aren’t afraid of the few cars.
A family of them drive a Suburu.
A man sees pumas in Santiago, Chile.
The pumas purr, eat big bowls of chili.
Monkeys throw bananas at the T***p Tower.
Monkeys, bears, wolves are trumping us humans.
Maybe the meek will inherit the earth.
David Spicer has published poems in Santa Clara Review, Moria, Oyster River Pages, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Nominated for a Best of the Net three times and a Pushcart twice, he is author of six chapbooks, the latest being Tribe of Two (Seven CirclePress). His second full-length collection Waiting for the Needle Rain is now available from Hekate Publishing.