A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House
Erika DeShay
Swirling Thoughts While Grading Papers on a Tuesday
Always
believe in the
condescension of
division.
Evening
facilitates compromise,
guards broken
hearts.
I never worry aloud about
juxtaposition, what we
kill is what we
love.
Mourning
necessitates cooperation.
Open and
prying eyes can
quiet sunrises.
Razors
sharpen on
tiger teeth: we are the
underlying problem.
Varicose bluster
wailing from
xenophobic assholes
yearning for a past unbidden.
Zealots and tyrants sleep well.
Erika DeShay‘s poems have appeared in Callaloo, The Cortland Review, Half and One, Fatal Flaw, 45 Mag, and other journals. A 2024 Periplus Collective Fellow, she is a Black poet and English teacher living in Denver, Colorado.
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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