Today, in Baghdad,
Car bombs killed
Twenty-eight humans
And wounded eighty-eight more.
Yesterday,
During Friday prayers,
A bomb killed twenty-six
Worshippers—
This time Sunnis
Killed by Shiites.
Just one year ago,
Twelve pleasure seeking folks
Watching a movie
Were shot dead,
And seventy more wounded
By a nut with a gun—
The anniversary marked
By nasty demonstrations
For and against
Guns for nuts.
As I passed our garden fence
I saw a Monarch butterfly
Bouncing about,
And a busy hummingbird
Feeding at the complex purple bloom
Flaunted by a Lily-of-the-Nile.
I cannot find the words.
(7/20/13)