How Dark, How Light

the moon has seen it all since the

start, how light replaced night’s

dark, how dark returns, how homeless

find homes in rooms of California

hotels, not meek, not blameless

merely poor, even if the room is in

the poorest hotel, think of the running

water, a bed, a roof, think of someone

gaunt, suddenly clean, looking out

a window watching rain fall, think of

volunteers bringing meds & meals

far away on yachts let the richest

complain of what they’re losing, what
they’ve lost, may they suffer the cost