Robert Ronnow
                                                                                        The Imaginary i



                Resistance. Momentum.


Countries occasionally go crazy
Russians in Ukraine, us in Vietnam and Iraq,
human migration, a force of nature, a virus attack,
from fire, from drouth, from hurricanes south.
I remember Mom’s words for my room's mess:

catastrophe, havoc, chaos, confusion.
What a welter, snake pit, mare’s nest!
Mishmash, morass, maelstrom,
bollix, motley, hodgepodge,
snarl, anarch, labyrinth.

Gordian knot, street litter, Capitol riot, thousand year storm.
Miscellaneous consciousness, rarely a clear coherent thought,
not one logical, lucid progression. Free-for-all.
Mending rhymes with ending, why not?
We’ve been wrong before and will be wrong again.


Copyright 2023 by Robert Ronnow.