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.”