Fuzz
By Sara Oliver Gordus
Age makes us
unlikely watchdogs,
wary
uncertain sentries
At the playground,
the children gathered.
swarming shrieks and hues
Read us a story
Tag Archives: political poems
Chernobyl Days
By Claudia Serea
We heard about it
on Radio Free Europe.
Weeks later,
they distributed at school
to each of us, two small white pills
of potassium iodine per day