Marjorie Moorhead
Two Poems
11/7/2020
City folk dancing in the streets
exorcising built-up toxicity
Here, amongst tall trees,
recently bared, I’ve
made a celebration cake.
confetti colored sprinkles
on a white frosting cloud
atop dark cocoa sponge.
Something had to be done
to codify the joy
the relief an out-breath
before our struggles resume.
It’s KAmala Baby!
It’s KAmala baby! Learn
to say it right.
Just like we did with OBAma.
This can be done.
An adjustment made.
Different names different hues.
Let’s move on and up and forward.
Let’s demand action that saves
our Planet
and treats every person with respect
for their dignity.
—Submitted on 11/08/2020
Marjorie Moorhead is the author of the chapbooks Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (Finishing Line Press 2019), and Survival Part 2: Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees (Duck Lake Books 2020). Her poems have appeared in Sheila-Na-Gig, Porter House Review, Verse-Virtual, Rising Phoenix Review, Amethyst Review, and other journals, as well as in several anthologies, including most recently Covid Spring (Hobblebush Books, 2020).
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