Despite the terrors
unleashed upon our earth,
the madness of days,
the honeysuckle blooms,
the din of coral bells,
though trifling
out-rings the tongues
of angry men.
This poem first appeared in Poet Republic (2020).
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Lynn Tait is an award-winning poet/photographer residing in Sarnia, Ontario. She’s the author of the poetry collection You Break It You Buy It, Guernica Editions 2023. Her poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, Vallum, FreeFall, Literary Review of Canada, Quarantine Review, Prairie Fire, Anti-Heroin Chic, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Muleskinner Journal, Last Leaves, and in over 100 North American anthologies.
