November 8th 2016

      (on the election of Donald Trump)

             ash floats higher

     over a fire

than masks held up on poles

   November 5^th

hence forthwith

they’ll remember their roles

when November 8

 to make America great
   they voted for moles

parent neighbor

 childhood traitor

   faces of conspiracy

                         news now saying

    gunpowder plots

anger at democracy   

Copyright © Dick Russell

                 2016

                                          1967 Near Lagos: 

                                                 for Mogens Brynjolf                                          

                                                              Walking to the Sea

           a hot day in motion
slight breeze among palm trees
   wearing shirt no tie

                    a hut

    on a fringe of beach
between forest     and       ocean
             swamp             lagoon

suckling her baby

                   silhouetted against gloom inside

                             that one roomed hut

                      
                      imagine
                    her embrace
                so warmly she unveils  

                       watchful brown
                               green eyes

                    in her womb
              a man might gauge
                      a longing for
                             another child
                    so warmly
                          she smiles

             such as he

                                                       lonely walking from Yaba Tech
                                                            on his way to the sea

                                                              copyright (C) Dick Russell

                                                                                2016