A Room of My Own: The Same Face, One Hundred Days Later

This Brave New World, V

Biden won! 

And so did corporate elites!

with fists in cold air

rows of masked protesters march 

into the gathering dark 

two masked women

sit behind the President

who gives a speech ...

the word growth becomes heavy

and heavier on a migrant's mind

Notes:

1 "The Big Role That Big Donors Still Play, Quietly, for Joe Biden," The New York Times, Feb. 12 2021, updated

2 "It's about time," USA Today, April 29

For the first time in history, two women sat behind a president during an address to a joint session of Congress. 

The historic image during Joe Biden's speech Wednesday is 245 years in the making since the nation's founding.

"Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President," Biden said as he took the podium. "No president has ever said those words from this podium and it's about time."   

Added: Two Hundred and Third Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

the hands

of my grandfather's clock

dragging each second

in my quarantined mind's eye

the three-year-old me