Wait, What?: A Poem
Cheryl Chapman Cheryl Chapman

Wait, What?: A Poem

Wait, what?

A billion dollars is

About to trickle down on the Midwest from D.C.?

So that carbon dioxide won’t pollute the skies more?

Wait, so now we can capture that stuff from the Periodic Table of Elements

That we all had to memorize in high school?

C is for carbon. O is for oxygen.

Perfectly safe, right?

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The Hourglass: A Poem
Cheryl Chapman Cheryl Chapman

The Hourglass: A Poem

Generations of generating will stop,

Buildings will empty,

Quiet and birdsong will prevail.

It’s a transition…

It’s a hard transition.

Make it just.

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