PERSEPHONE
PERSEPHONE IMPRISONED FOR ATTENDING SCHOOL SPRING CANCELLED
It’s so nice to escape news of Jihad You drive out of your city on 2 lane hi-ways
Snow covered trees creep over limestone escarpments toward Stone City
Confluence of St. Lawrence +Rideau Canal Say good-bye to Lake O frozen now
with huts (not fever huts of dying Irish) fishing+skating pink twilight on horizon
night+day
ISIS now a world away? Except for giant screen tv in soul-less hotel (with best
restaurant in Stone City!) tv flickers green Too late jihad enters refreshed psyche
Kenji Goto’s mother shredded His brother may never fully recover from seeing the
decapitation Orange jumpsuit in desert execution a jarring re-entry to reality
Flip off tv turn to pg. 2 local rag Whitney’s daughter Bobbi K. 21 unconscious in
a tub Still uncertain if she will make it Lost her mother in tub at 45 On the way
home the hills+fields+trees don’t look as free not as pristine as you drag Bobbi
Kristina +Kenji Goto back to the city It’s February 1st & tomorrow is the Wiccan
Imbolc a hope filled ray in this dirge When all the seeds begin to stir
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Persephone Under 20 centimeters Spring Rising 2015
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