of pandemic, climate change,
social injustice, tyranny,
and gratitude for what matters
writing from our home
in Nashville, where we
are under an excessive
heat warning all this week,
high humidity and temperatures
my beloved and I
both testing positive for COVID
for the first time and
quarantined at our home,
we are managing
writing this now,
my eyeballs hurt,
my fever is breaking
and I am covered in sweat
and trying to control a bad cough
tragically, we are inundated
daily with bad news of
gun violence, mass shootings,
and extrajudicial shootings
of young black men by police
and all this, not to mention,
the house hearings on the
criminal ex-45th. ‘president’
and his fascist, anti-democracy,
insurrectionist efforts to steal election
dear hearts, grateful for
all of you who have expressed concerns
and who walk this journey with us,
blessed to belong in authentic
community with you all
Herb Stone
here&now working poetry
July 7, 2022
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