One Poem by RC deWinter

 

yellow sky blue heart

so here it is another date night without a date

not that i necessarily want one 

in fact i go out out of my way to discourage

men who sniff around dropping compliments

and insinuations like chocolate kisses 

i don't want to unwrap

and though it's not quite dark i'm standing 

outside waiting for the yellowish sky to dissolve

into whatever shade of blue it and my heart will wear on this summer saturday night out here in the sticks 

far removed from the violence cropping up unannounced like poisonous mushrooms suddenly spawning chaos and death in so many places 

across the continent before dematerializing 

back into the shadows until the next 

bloodstained surprise

until when finally dark the brave early stars shine with a beauty that would lead one to believe that all is right with the world when anyone who isn't living in a cave knows that there's almost nothing right 

in our country or much of the world for that matter 

but we keep on living hoping to still be here to see the day when  the poison infecting the country

is vanquished and we can begin to make america beautiful once more

RC deWinter’s poetry is widely anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku (NY Times/2017), The Connecticut Shakespeare Festival Anthology (River Bend Bookshop Press, 12/2021 NewContexts:3 Coverstory Books, April 2022) in print: 2River View, Event Magazine, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, the minnesota review, Plainsongs, Prairie Schooner, Southword, the ogham stone, York Literary Review among many others and appears in numerous online publications.