by Gil Hoy
On America’s birthday,
I worry that
Fraying, sinewed
colored threads
are fading,
Red-hot, burning coals
blaze too bright,
Deep-seated, divisive
discords may be ready
to explode.
On America’s birthday,
I worry that
Fraying, sinewed
colored threads
are fading,
Red-hot, burning coals
blaze too bright,
Deep-seated, divisive
discords may be ready
to explode.
Gil Hoy is a Boston poet and trial lawyer who studied poetry at Boston University through its Evergreen program. Hoy received a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Boston University, an M.A. in Government from Georgetown University, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He served as a Brookline, Massachusetts Selectman for four terms. Hoy’s poetry has appeared (or will be appearing) most recently in Chiron Review, Ariel Chart, Social Justice Poetry, Poetry24, Right Hand Pointing/One Sentence Poems, The Penmen Review, I am not a silent poet, TheNewVerse.News and Clark Street Review.
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