Risa Denenberg
Tikkun Olam
We are (not) a dying species.
Our biosphere is (not) past repair.
The house is (not) broke(n).
Folks are (not) founts of wisdom.
There are (no) tablets writ in stone.
Every day, we worship (mammon).
A canon yields to no one with(out) a gun.
The bullies have (not) crushed us.
But we are (not) the bullies.
Everything (does not) depend(s) on us.
Risa Denenberg is the author of Slight Faith (Moonpath Press, 2018), Whirlwind @ Lesbos (Headmistress Press, 2016), In My Exam Room (The Lives You Touch Publications, 2014) and blinded by clouds (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2014) She is a nurse practitioner working in HIV/AIDS care and end-of-life care. Risa is a moderator at The Gazebo, an online poetry board; reviews poetry for the American Journal of Nursing; and is an editor at Headmistress Press, a publisher of lesbian poetry. She lives on the Olympic peninsula in Washington State.
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