Marjorie Moorhead
Interloper
Why must Polar Bears
starve
When the fat pig
thrives?
Why can he slash
Bears Ears,
insult Navajo
Code Breakers,
steal our taxes
for the takers?
I saw an opossum on our deck last night.
He doesn’t belong here.
It’s not the normal habitat.
Why did he not fear
me when I went outside
and stomped?
Awkward, homely, and out of place;
nevertheless he claimed territory.
He blatantly transgressed.
Marjorie Moorhead‘s poem “Starlight in My Pocket” appeared in the HIV Here & Now project annual run-up to World AIDS Day in 2017. Her poem “Wandering the Anthropocene” is included in the anthology A Change of Climate (Independently published, 2017) edited by Sam Illingworth and Dan Simpson to benefit the Environmental Justice Foundation. Her poems will appear in the anthologies Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont, Vol. 2 (Blueline Press, 2018) and in the Opening Windows Fourth Friday Poets collection forthcoming from Hobblebush Press in 2018. Marjorie lives in New Hampshire near the Vermont border.
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