Trolls: Three Haiku
"Remember, there will be trolls who move in. Also remember, sunlight is their bane."
- Jane Hawkner
In the dark of night,"Remember, there will be trolls who move in. Also remember, sunlight is their bane."
- Jane Hawkner
Trolls gather to celebrate.
Sunlight is their bane.
Bugs under a rock
Are always surprised by light.
Turn the rock over.
Trump is elected.
We have four years of sun.
Pick up the rock now.
Advanced Alt-Rightitis
Twenty and beautiful and already showing
signs of a condition that once started gets
handed down from generation to generation.
I lost my ability to inoculate him when I lost
custody of his father, almost fifty years ago now—
first the son and then the grandson who grew up
far states and the attitudes of caregivers away—
leaving me little room to intervene or quarantine.
I watched as both were exposed, helpless
to stop the judgmentalism that invaded
and spread to their tissues and cells;
the mind infiltrated first, and then the heart—
the males in our family the most vulnerable
to the wiping out of the function of motivation
to budge. No matter how many M.D.s
or clergywomen I might pray to or call upon,
our family's case of advanced, full-blown Alt-Rightitis
Republicaniasis remains a diagnosis real
as an elephant this mother and grandmother
has no choice but to ignore if she wants
to be allowed today's in-home visits.
by Sharon Wood Wortman
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Jane Yolen has published over 360 books. She writes a poem a day and sends them to subscribers. To subscribe: http://eepurl.com/bs28ab. Of her many prizes for her work, one set her good Scottish wool coat on fire. She takes that as a warning.
With four children, 11 grandchildren, a great grand, and a full-time husband, Sharon Wood Wortman faithfully (mostly) attends the meetings of her writing/critique group, 29thstreetwriters.com