IT WILL HELP TO REMEMBER THESE TROUBLES AS WELL.*
by Bonnie Naradzay
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*Aeneas to his men, after theirs is the only ship to survive a violent storm at sea near Carthage. |
Friends, a study of The Black Death states the plague
may have come from outer space. The Mars Rover
landed in a dried up lake. Perseverance is transporting
images home from the red planet. On earth, we learn
that magnetic north and south may be flipping sides,
an ominous event, according to weakening attractions
and ancient iron shards stuck pointing the wrong way.
In Galveston, medical workers asked for a refrigerated
truck to store the dead bodies. Thousands of turtles
stunned by the cold have gone to a convention center
in the backs of station wagons. Ted Cruz got on the plane
in jeans but went the wrong way, or the optics were wrong.
Sweet Thames, and Virgil, flow gently while I end my song.
Bonnie Naradzay leads poetry workshops at a day shelter for homeless people and at a retirement center, both in Washington DC. Recent poems are in AGNI, New Letters (Pushcart nomination), Kenyon Review Online, RHINO, Tar River Poetry, Tampa Review, Poet Lore, EPOCH, Northern Virginia Review, Anglican Theological Review, Seminary Ridge Review, and The Ekphrastic Review.