Photography © Chad Parenteau

 

Post-Election Day Haiku

Trump re-election
marigolds on an altar
Democracy cries

her uterus
property of men
and government

blood on gown
Lady Liberty’s torch
even higher

 

Patricia Carragon is the editor of the new online journal, Sense and Sensibility Haiku. She hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology.

Chad Parenteau is Associate Editor of Oddball Magazine.