how spring can be this
ludicrously lush
fat dark pink
blossom
the word blossom
lily of the valley
wafting history
 
photos of
heads shaved & shoved
into what the shavers want us
to see no faces
not brother not lover
not my heart how
our power turned
no plane around
no human child to cradle
 
in the year of our no lord
2025
in the month of April
in the nation United
 
spring’s velvet turning juicing
spring’s pollen
harbinger of horrors? States
 
of the smallness & brutality
we’ve become of America