Author Archives: Lisa Rosier
Mea Culpa
DID YOU KNOW: Asylum seekers, -our brothers and sisters from Mexico and Central America- present themselves at the United States’ territorial borders, desperately seeking to assimilate with a nation that will offer law and order, protection, dignity, and liberty -since we will not go into their countries to insure it- when indeed, the United States’ foreign and economic polices have created environments where terror, violence, and corruption flourish in the first place? #NAFTA #CAFTA
https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/CAFTA-fact-sheet-Aug-2018.pdf
Fourth Rising
The western sky, brooding
Way over there, watching dawn become done
Has come to understand despite its expanse
I, in the east, looming
May be much too much this morning
Heat and light
Backyard Blackbird
Slow-motion moment
Becomes that magic minute
Through sunlit feathers
Dud
I imagine the universe echoes us all
At some point distant, or close
Rings back like a lover, or brother, or friend
Then, silence -when you need them most
It’s possible love transcends murderous words
In subsequent lifetimes, or past
A dynamite stick, burning from both the ends
Its light soon to fizzle, it’s heat a mere flash
Speak: A Haiku
Construction clatter
Bulldozing, then building up
Disciples list’ning
El Fin
I’ve been reading about you
A page-turner on your ways
How to Act like you
Visible, yet invisible
How to look like you
Cold, broad shoulders and all
Nothing
No information I’ve found
Promises ease
Today, though
I’ll finish the book
How To Leave
Ten and Two
Classic, after all, I am a lady
Iconic, as a woman, too
Such as time can be,
How could I have known
When, while yesterday, a girl
Today I’d be enough?
Homeland
Gutted
This constitution
Any declaration of wholeness
However hard-fought
Stripped
Pretend Pancakes
Often the illusion
Gets the better of me
And I become sure
That you’re my very blood, born of the Right Stuff too
That the Supernatural said we should know each other and made it so
That you’re sorry -you’re just shy, so you haven’t hello
That you actually do wear that damn green T-shirt and pray for me each day
