A week before the election,
my neighbor next door overnight
posted a Women for Trump
sign and I was too incensed
the next day to wave to her
as she stood on her porch
with a smile as big as Texas
which is where we live
and where my 17-year-old
granddaughter could be raped
tomorrow and made to bear
the damage done
no questions asked.
Meanwhile Rumi
calls from a wall
in my office
that out beyond
the ideas
of wrongdoing
and rightdoing
there is a field
and that we should
meet each other there
but, Rumi, my dear
dead Sufi poet,
you never met
my neighbor's
grab ’em
by the pussy hero.
You never saw
freckles dance
on my
granddaughter’s
cheeks.
In some poems
there is a field
too far.
Tina Williams’s poems have appeared in the San Pedro River Review, Quartet Journal, Amethyst Review, The New Verse News, As It Ought To Be Magazine, Stone Poetry Journal, and Green Ink Poetry.