Another School Shooting
You couldn’t spin blindfolded
in this god-loving country
and discharge your weapon
without a bullet piercing
a self-declared constitutional scholar
with the foremost expertise
on the second amendment
who pose
with at least a hundred
sidearms
arranged as a flag
of the United States of
freedom-loving America
yet somehow
the shooter’s
bullets stray
and hit only
soft things
that will never
shoot back
Sumit Parikh is a poet from Cleveland, OH, whose work is shaped by his experiences as a pediatric neurologist, a son, and a father. He finds poetry in both the complexities of his work as a physician and the quiet moments of everyday family life. His work has appeared in I-70 Review, North Dakota Quarterly and Intima, among others. Some of his poems can be found at sumitspoetry.com. Sumit lives with his wife and daughter. He is currently part of a writing mentorship and workshop with Brian Evans-Jones, a former Poet Laureate of Hampshire, UK, and winner of the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers.
The Marbled Sigh 