Gone, Trump Election, 2024
Bomb cyclones in Seattle
houses hiding from the hurricanes
the E.P.A.
is gone,
cloud cover cries:
who will care
for the children
once their parents drown
in this debris?
Pamela L. Laskin is the former director of the Poetry Outreach Center, and published author of three young adult novels and five books of poetry. She is currently at work on a book of blogs: “SHADES OF SWEETNESS AND SORROW FROM A SENIOR BLOGGER.”