Climate Change – Diana Elizabeth Carroll

The Cost of Living

The first fine frosty morning
of fall.
Every branch,
every blade of grass,
picked out in patterns
of wispy white.

On April 20, 2021, a jury in Minneapolis found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes, after he had already been arrested, handcuffed, and subdued. After the verdict was announced, as usually happens, political leaders and other public figures rushed to makeContinue reading “Laying Down Our Lives”