A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime
Timothy Nolan
Fear the Fields
seeded with mines
designed to shatter
the lives and limbs
of all who tend
to war-furrowed soil.
This year’s seeds
go unplanted
or unfertilized,
will not rise up
in waves of grain,
will not yield daily bread
or deliver us from evil
acts, tortured corpses
along the roadside.
Holodomor: Ukrainian
for hunger and plague
or extermination visited on
this same fertile land
nearly a century ago.
Today a lion copycats
bloodlust for glory
and vindication,
calls history a hoax,
sows only doubt
season after season.
How many generations
of dormant kernels
must wither and die
before faith restores
the sea of golden petals?
Timothy Nolan‘s poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, Fourteen Hills, Sonora Review, Puerto del Sol, Pangyrus, and other journals. A writer and visual artist, he lives in Idyllwild and Palm Springs, California, with his husband and their rescue dog, Scout. His work is in the collections of the DeYoung Museum of Art in San Francisco and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. He has received residencies from Yaddo, Ucross, and the Djerassi Artists Residency.
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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