POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE! Submit up to 3 poems about today's world in flux totaling no more than 150 lines each by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, May 30th. Culmination reading will be held on Saturday, May 31st, 3 to 5 pm ON ZOOM ONLY (link to reading will be provided to every published poet).

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Andy Palasciano

Cocoon


In one of the offices we clean,

One of the cubicles has a man

With the title, “Fisheries Biologist.”

And one of his coworkers put the

Word “Extreme” in front of his title.

So he was an “Extreme Fisheries Biologist.”

But humans are extremophiles-

Organisms that live in extreme conditions.

Even though things are extreme now,

There have always been Flowers of Algernon.

There are seeds beneath the ground

In winter.

When fruit comes in the spring,

It is our own arrogance that

Has been faced in the winter and let go of,

No one else’s.

So we should not eat seeds,

And try not to blame,

In the spring,

We will be set free

And will be free indeed.


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