[Critique Group 2] For Valorie

[Leonard Tuchyner]

Climate Change







 

A family of desert flowers,

Survival guaranteed—we are nothing

If not sturdy,

Trained up in unending sun and sand,

Where no waves bring

Conciliatory tide.

We espouse so-called “pragmatics”.

What of thriving—have I always wondered.

In my reach through middle years,

I seem the closest to that objective,

Via hard-proven trust,

Gentler hands have tended.

 

Sudden now intrudes shock and sorrow,

Hurricanic gusts, deluge clouds

Move inexorably slow.

Can this arid region--

Stolid as Dickinson’s bee--

Now absorb a rain?

 

Land mass metamorphosing …

We must respond in kind.

We support pragmatics,

Each—the old, the younger,

Learning … instructing … by turns.

Sounding necessary echoes

Meant for navigation …

 

Tears are good,

We just begin to apprehend:

Nourishment for fruits to come.

Hearts more open than before,

We master recitative.

Is it too late for me

to so yield my spastic will

Into long-foregone  release?

 

 

 



 
 
Leonard I. Tuchyner, Author
 
https://www.dldbooks.com/tuchyner/
 
  
 
 

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