A Room of My Own: This Is America

This Brave New World, XII

written in response to CBS News, June 27: Former President Donald Trump holds first rally since leaving office

a fly banging 

against the sunlit window

in the session 

my patient drones on 

I won the election

news after news

of "2024 run ..."

in scorching heat

crows caw-caw-caw

on the power line

Added: Two Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

dewdrops of sun

on a bent blade of grass ...

this quarantine life 

Added: Two Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

smoky twilight

body after body floating

in the Ganges

FYI: Poverty, stigma behind bodies floating in India’s Ganges River: Villagers along the river say cremation expenses rose during the pandemic, forcing many to immerse or bury the bodies in sand.  Saurabh Sharma, Al Jazeera, 2 June 2021 And the latest news, Photos show bodies of COVID victims floating along Ganges River in India,, Yaron Steinbuch, New York Post, June 29