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Christine Holland

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_ Poet Christine Holland struggles against the disasters reported
daily in the news, finding hope in the world's resilience and her own.
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I stopped watching it when the fascist clown 

got himself elected the second time.

I’m not the only one, it was a widespread phenomenon

in this here US of A. 

A collective decision not to juice our nervous systems

with outrage and fear every day.

 

I get countless emails, subject lines screeching

about the latest shocking thing he did, or that congress did

trying to please Mad King Donald. I delete them, open the one 

promising new recipes for easy weeknight dinners.

 

This too shall pass. That’s what they tell you in AA,

when you’re new and hankering for a drink,

a _beaker full of the warm south_, so you can sink toward 

sleep. This too shall pass. 

 

And it shall. Someday I’ll be gone from this

pain factory. I raise my mug of coffee to that day,

 

and to now,

when thank god I can count on the sun 

to keep rising and falling

or rather on this planet to keep turning, 

which just happened to form

in what the scientists call the Goldilocks Zone,

that just-right band where water is liquid 

and life can get on with its infinite creativity

making new things all the damn time. 

 

This too shall pass. But not yet. 

_A poet, herbalist, and garden-tender, Christine Holland Cummings’
poems explore our connection to each other and to the more-than-human
world. Her work has appeared in Iron Horse Literary review, Blueline,
Manzanita Quarterly, Hamilton Stone Review, The Sand Hill Review,
Reckoning, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, and Quiet Diamonds. Her
poems have been anthologized in Blue Arc West: An Anthology of
California Poets and Our Last Walk: Using Poetry for Grieving and
Remembering Pets._

 

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