Hope and Progress
Hope and Progress
Five women accused
of being witches beaten
to death in India.
That’s the latest headline
from our home planet’s
ongoing evolutionary
celebration, documenting
our forward momentum
here in this little
paradise of darkness.
File it with all the other
dangerous intentions,
as we spin pridefully
and relentlessly towards
our glorious end.
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Just a Color
Light rain on an August morning,
everything a deep green. War
wagons roll anyway, destruction
dancing despite the beauty,
beauty not being enough: green
just a color like red, blood red.
Make Some Noise in Your Sleep
“To live with one’s cowardice is bitter.”—Czeslaw Milosz*
You know what he means
because you live it now
as all the others did,
while the swords
and tanks and bombs
ruled the world
and assassins slipped
though the night.
You do whatever it
takes to stay hidden,
to remain anonymous
in that swollen, gray
lake of obedience and
fear that you so cleverly
ply your trade in, living
bitter with your cowardice.
*Native Realm, Milosz pp. 240
Paul Lojeski
