" Quelling Outrage "...

" Quelling Outrage "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Quelling outrage
going overboard
to safety

via overshadowing
campaigns
of top aides
planning debates

yet deciding
to separate
by staking claims
said to aim
at tennis games

while manically
swinging rackets
set point match

with little
known about
pathogens
and drought

as fungi
stand by
at the height
for gnarly
oaks to pines

both dead and dying
via invisible dikes
running in straight lines...