Second Coming No. 119 — May 18, 2025
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime
Deborah Bacharach
We Lived Happily During the Heat
after Ilya Kaminsky
One hundred plus, plus,
and when New Orleans gets hit
we admire our mountain, snow-covered
benevolent god
blessing us
with forests deep and green.
We give a thought or two
to the child in the dry Texan Big Bend
fallen, and then we flash to
sweat pooling in our breasts, so much
fun on the dance floor.
When we were in college we had that poster, First they came for. . . .
Maybe it’s rolled up in the basement with Cesar Chavez.
For years, we’ve been drinking iced wine with impunity.
Deborah Bacharach is the author of Shake & Tremor (Grayson Books, 2021) and After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015). Her work has recently appeared in Poetry East, Last Syllable, and Grist among many other journals, and she has received a Pushcart Prize honorable mention. She is a poetry reader for SWWIM and Whale Road Review.
Indolent Books and editor Michael Broder are back with another poem-a-day series as a creative response to the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House. The plan is to continue for all 1460 days of the 47th American presidency.
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