Michele Stepto
Scenes from the Poem and the News 5
The poem enters
telling a story:
once upon a time
they were easy to pick off
one by one not one
of them thought
of hiding or bunkers
or having a gun
no one there
was a conspiracy theorist
no one thought he
(or she) had any
enemies and there were
so many of them!
Not that it made
any difference to them
Afterward they went home
and had their supper
and went to bed
happily ever after
Michele Stepto (with her son Gabriel) is the translator of Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World (Beacon Press, 1997), from the original Spanish by Catalina de Erauso. Her work has appeared in Verse-Virtual, Ekphrastic Review, NatureWriting, Mirror Dance, Lacuna Journal, and One Sentence Poems.
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