Art Credit: Louis Trew, Collage, Bristol, UK @louistrew on IG
REVOLUTION
We learn revolution
as a one-time trauma,
with drum, with anthem,
shouts and shocks
and falling guillotine,
yet, too, the clock revolves.
The year revolves.
The natural order
revolves, the power
of beauty revolves away
the power of parents
revolves away the power
of childhood revolves away
the mask
slips on
slips off
About the author:
Irene O’Garden is listed in Who’s Who in the World, in America, and of American Women. Just released in hardcover from Nirala Press is Fulcrum, O’Garden’s first volume of poetry. Her writing is anthologized with Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem, and others in The Greatness Of Girls.
Art Credit: Louis Trew, Collage, Bristol, UK @louistrew on IG