A Room of My Own: Pool Spray

The Reuters journalist keeps pushing the question. "You're just a lightweight. Don't talk to me that way!" the President says loudly with a twist to his mouth. Silence penetrates the room.

night news on mute 

my Mexican parrot yells

concede, concede ... 

FYI: A pool spray is an American political/journalistic term for an event in which photographers and other members of the news media are allowed to visit briefly with the US President. This haibun was inspired by   Business Insider, Nov. 27: Trump snapped at a reporter quizzing him about his election defeat, saying "Don't ever talk to the president that way."

Added: One Hundred Forty-Sixth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

Faith Like a Mustard Seed

a 12-foot

monolith in the red-rock desert

appeared then vanished...

I recall the President's words

like a miracle, it'll disappear

the White House

shrouded in a cloud

of ravens 

in infectious dreams

I chant, January 20th

FYI: Insider, Nov.29: "The strange, metal monolith recently found in the remote Utah desert has mysteriously vanished" and CNN, Dec. 1: "'It's going to disappear': A timeline of Trump's claims that Covid-19 will vanish."

Added: written in response to Donald Trump's so-called "most important speech" delivered on Wednesday and for Leonard Cohen who remarked, There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

his twisted smile

and a crack in the wall 

between two flags--

the Stars-and-Stripes

and the presidential seal