The ghouls conspire/ The women gather

The merchants of war            but                   I love the world

issue decrees,                                                     how it used to be when

sycophants plot                                                  lightning bugs shimmered

to poison the trees.                                            in the evening breeze.

 

Desaparecidos never disappear-        but                   Las madres come together

these erstwhile enemies                                               the names of children live

figure in the fear of the newly                                    in their fingers in their eyes

minted junta-the vicious never cease.                       In their lips where songs arise.

 

 

Final solution to the                            but                   When Antigone rises

problem that never was                                               to let her brother rest

with the graveyard of the living                                 death cannot dim

Beelzebub thinks he’s won.                                         the cause of righteousness.

 

Published by Anne Birkam

I am a former librarian who has been writing poetry most of her life.

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