by Melanie Choukas-Bradley
While tanks roll through our streets
We want you to know
We are vulnerable and resilient like you
This police state wannabe is not us
We are the fish jumping in the Potomac
The magnolia filling the air
We are fireflies testing the night
The bullfrog and the cathedral bell
The convergence of rivers
As this martial maelstrom
Storms land and sky
Our osprey nestlings hope only to fledge
Melanie Choukas-Bradley is a Washington, DC naturalist and author of Wild Walking, A Year in Rock Creek Park, Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island and City of Trees. Her poems have appeared in The New Verse News, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, and Plenty Magazine.
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