Two Poems
“How to Have a Child” by Barbara Kingsolver
“Election Year” by Richard Blanco
A Poem
Drain
by ljkemp
Everything that can wreck a life
has been done before
passive,
we are strangled in the vile clasp
helpless and defeated
until the clouds begin
sailing in, cargoed with rain
pouring down
in biblical proportions
flooding and drowning
active,
we breathe again together
stand and speak
fight to wash with the rain
everything that wrecks life
oppression
violence
poverty
neglect
disease
famine
hatred
abuse
war
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