After the election
I woke in sorrow
night after night,
wondering what
would happen
to the earth,
the air and waterways,
bees and wolves and newts
with no one strong enough
to say their health
means as much
as ours, that
our health
leans on theirs.
Day after day
I dragged up
out of bed
feeling a close
relative had died.
All I could do
was add a little color
to a drawing
before I went to work,
dwarf planet Pluto
and its five moons
above a golden camel,
a white rabbit,
a gray Moonwoman
rattle – crescent
eyes, strong nose,
crooked lips open
as if to gasp
or speak.
Penelope Moffet is the author of the chapbooks Cauldron of Hisses (Arroyo Seco Press, 2022), It Isn’t That They Mean to Kill You (Arroyo Seco Press, 2018) and Keeping Still (Dorland Mountain Arts, 1995).
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