Love thy Neighbor
Your sunny kitchen curtains
and carefully tended plants
Your swept porch, robin’s egg blue
projects a calm you don’t feel
Your position is crumbling
ivy digs in the mortar
Poverty creeping back in
a shadow crossing the lawn
Stealing your complacency
your white rights, your lawn jockey.
Bethel, OH June 14 2020
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Powerful!
Wonderfully written. Great details!
The ending really captures it.
I love the way this poem goes to an unexpected place.