Second Coming No. 343 — December 28, 2025
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime
Terry Wolverton
Maybe the Sky Is Not a Signal of Weather
Shadows confess an agitation of the trees.
Sun offers the illusion of light.
Scope of work is never as it appears. Before
you know, you’re digging a pit for the body parts.
Promise me you’ll never turn your back on the moon.
Don’t neglect to look for her if she goes missing.
If I go missing, I will have found a doorway
from this world to the next. Will my shadow come too?
An unused broom has sat in the shadowed corner
for as long as I remember. No one plucks it up to dance.
I once believed I could straddle that broom and fly,
but I’ve forgotten that woman with skirts of fire.
Terry Wolverton is author of thirteen books of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, including the novel in poems Embers (Red Hen Press, 2003), the memoir Insurgent Muse: Art and Life at the Woman’s Building (City Lights Publishers, 2002), and her most recent novel, Season of Eclipse (Bella Books, 2024). She has also edited sixteen literary compilations. Wolverton is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing studio in Los Angeles, and serves as affiliate faculty in the MFA writing program at Antioch University Los Angeles.
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