It’s not just earthquakes

that rend this land asunder,

rageful rancor does it too.

~

If we avoided

fracking and fractious debate

quaking would subside.

It’s the twelfth day of

the twelfth month and our leader

acts like a weird twelve year old.

~

Meanwhile, Congress

counts coup in five minute chunks

and Senate sucks their thumbs.

It’s Sixty degrees

with snow forecast by morning.

That’s Virginia in winter.

~

This, in the era

of radical climate change,

has become the new normal.

Be on the lookout.

It’s possible sanity

might make a brief appearance.

~

You’d need keener eyes

than mine, to find the barest shred

among all that murky verbiage!

When people offer

constructive criticism,

some feel unjustly censured.

~

Humility helps

us all to listen and learn,

but it doesn’t come easy.

Seventy seven

years ago today, the one

who gave birth to you was born.

~

Seventy-seven

is the smallest integer

pronounced with five syllables.

Deep in the jungle

of a lifetime’s collection,

what might the descendent’s find?

~

It’s not what they’ll find;

rather, it’s what conclusions

they will draw from their findings.

When the song you sing

has only shrill notes, who can

harmonize with you?

~

Dogs will howl along

with your high pitched keening:

whistles only they can hear.

Merry Christmas, Y’all!

Scrooge hands down the gift of choice;

the poor must choose, heat, or food.

~

He just took Christ out

of Christmas, but will his

 evangelical base care?

Hard not to lose heart

when those in power show none

and we have much to repair.

~

Repair all you want-

if we don’t fix the breakers,

we’re in for endless despair.