Friday, June 24, 2022

TODAY STARTED OUT WITH A HOPEFUL MOMENT

by Mark Danowsky


by Andrew Shu



“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
                        - Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

 
a story about an eagle
saving a baby hawk
instead of devouring

an eagle
the symbol of America
making a surprising choice

a moment of silence now
for humanity
who often shows no mercy

here comes the blood
sacrifices of scapegoats
who cry out the injustice

the weight of voices in pain
screams must echo
there is no way to ignore this 


Mark Danowsky is Editor-in-Chief of ONE ART: a journal of poetry. He is the author of As Falls Trees (NightBallet Press) and JAWN (Moonstone Press). A short collection Violet Flame is forthcoming from tiny wren lit.