June 2022

This is a lament
for decency gone astray
a nod to everyday women
on this sad day, Shaye Moss –

perhaps the rose of youth
will bloom in splendor
raise a garden over some
graveyard bones – for all

my casting stones at
heavenly bodies above
you shine a light here
in the dark keep on

Miss Rosa keep on.

*4th public hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol

June 2022

Published by Anne Birkam

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

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