REVOLUTION

It’s all spin, a global matinee—the news, social media, television shows, chatter that supposedly give life meaning. When everything adds up to nothing not even a ubiquitous dove, the fury of all the king’s hordes nor tug of heaven’s glove will lift the crazed shaman drunk on Ganges water from his blistering ashes.

Thomas Piekarski is a former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly.