Pandemic Poems - APRIL 2020
Sylvia Cavanaugh
cavanaughpoet@gmail.com
cavanaughpoet@gmail.com
Author's Note: The inspiration for this headline poem came from the book,
Overstory, by Richard Powers. It is a deeply moving book that I believe everyone should read.
Such a celebration of trees, and so much more. There are forces on this earth larger than
we humans, and lifeforms every bit as precious.
Texas Lt. Governor: Old People Should Volunteer to Die to Save the Economy
Vanity Fair 3/24/2020
Texas Lt. Governor: Old People Should Volunteer to Die to Save the Economy
Vanity Fair 3/24/2020
Trumpets for Trees
Some pictures of the coronavirus
make it look like a planet
with trumpets for trees
could this signify the trumpeting
third angel of Revelation
the star
wormwood
turning the waters bitter
Dupont has turned a few
waters bitter
as had the mining companies
of Tar Creek
so many stars
to turn our waters bitter
how many of us have already died
for capitalism
but every coronavirus picture
looks like it came straight
out of Dr. Seuss’s latest book
maybe Theodor Seuss Geisel
has become the hand of God
defending the planet
clean things up a bit
and on the final page of his newly
released book Trumpets for Trees
a question
would you die to save the earth
©2020 Sylvia Cavanaugh
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