November 2024
Bio Note: This poem was written just after the 2020 election, and was a sigh of relief. Four years later, here we are again. My latest book is Day Lasts Forever: Selected Poems of Mario dell'Arco (World Poetry Books).
Still
There are still birds, still things coming to life
in unexpected ways. Still nights and days.
Nocturnal, diurnal. Circadian rhythms
scratching an itch at the back of the throat.
Still family, still friends. Still love
slapping you silly with its rubber tongue,
salt that makes your stomach sing a psalm,
palettes of rusted foliage, stray bees
in November, still buzzing in the lavender.
Originally published in Rattle Poets Respond, November 10, 2020
©2024 Marc Alan Di Martino
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