Consider This Moment
Inspired by Last Birthday by Maysa Yousef
The news is the background
a single human life is the foreground
the ground
the land
the taking of so much
a mother can only kneel with
a shawl of heavy grief on her shoulders
look to the budgie
to learn to sing after the hatchling falls from the nest
featherless baby
wrapped in care
the future dies with a thud
yellow, acrid, smoky haze covers the city
hope, a memory of time past.
Heather Griffith is a poet and physical therapist. She writes poems that reckon with these wild times. The poems weave together elements of everyday life, memoir, fictional imaginings, and real world events to engage as deeply as possible with issues confronting life today. Her poems have been published by Eunoia Review, Tiny Seed Literary Journal and Soul, Poetry, Prose,& Art Magazine. She can be found on socials @breathe_repeat_breathe, but tries to be mostly IRL with family, friends and community.
Inspired by Last Birthday by Maysa Yousef
The news is the background
a single human life is the foreground
the ground
the land
the taking of so much
a mother can only kneel with
a shawl of heavy grief on her shoulders
look to the budgie
to learn to sing after the hatchling falls from the nest
featherless baby
wrapped in care
the future dies with a thud
yellow, acrid, smoky haze covers the city
hope, a memory of time past.
Heather Griffith is a poet and physical therapist. She writes poems that reckon with these wild times. The poems weave together elements of everyday life, memoir, fictional imaginings, and real world events to engage as deeply as possible with issues confronting life today. Her poems have been published by Eunoia Review, Tiny Seed Literary Journal and Soul, Poetry, Prose,& Art Magazine. She can be found on socials @breathe_repeat_breathe, but tries to be mostly IRL with family, friends and community.
