An Evening’s Festivities
2022, Junior, Poetry & Spoken Word
A tanning bed.
White fur atop
With a foil reflector
To catch the bright sun perfectly.
Sunglasses positioned on a long snout,
But no umbrella in sight.
Elsewhere,
A factory keeps doing its job.
Pumping CO2 emissions,
Trapping heat.
The ice it sits above
Barely wider than itself
And alone in the bright, wide sea.
The polar bear’s tan.
A barstool.
A wild dog sits,
A drink in paw.
The melancholy expression
But pure hunger and sadness fall underneath.
Elsewhere,
Fields are replaced
With large machines.
Melancholy as always,
The coyote’s sip.
A necklace.
Like pearls, but not quite.
Fish adorned with plastic
Choking its owner.
Elsewhere,
People are oblivious
To waste, to plastic, to deaths.
White and unnatural
Cutting into skin
The fish’s necklace.