Nonfiction

Relates her story

as the audience resounds

fiction it assumes.

On duty

Unknown and unseen

is a silent spectator,

the well-trained sniper.

Vacancies with on-the-job training:
for the self-starters
the go getters
dreamers and doers.

Theoretical certification necessary.

His heart was scalding,

a burn as second-degree,

where the daughter stomped.

When nature redefines tragedy

and media recreates parody

no recourse have we to do

but redesign our strategy—

form and reform policies

and to reframe fallacies

trying to renovate lives

by relocating those hives

ever looking to rebuild future

forever striving to restore hope.