Tuesday, May 24, 2022

After Uvalde

Dandelion mandala



Words and words and words

Things fall apart

The center cannot hold

Those who've ever lost a child

Awaken now again

Into a nightmare,

Sitting with their ghosts again

To stare into the flames,

Hoping to find their way again

to simple, ordinary things

that keep them sane.







—with lines from Yeats' "Second Coming"