Breaking news and hearts…
he’d waited all his life to see the Northern Lights
and when they finally shimmered – he slept through it
Breaking news and hearts…
he was her Pole Star
and without him she lost all direction
Breaking news and hearts…
the last Polar bear had
no Arctic ice to hunt upon
Breaking news and hearts…
she broke the mirror her grandmother
smuggled beyond the reach of the Holocaust
Breaking news and hearts…
the baby drove the boy away
and not surely into her arms
Breaking news and hearts…
a premmie did not heroically make it
as the movies teach us to expect
Breaking news and hearts…
the dead in Gaza top forty thousand
and Zion still hasn’t had its pound of flesh
Breaking news and hearts…
another little babe is born
somewhere under the stars…
© Andrew Wilson, 2024
Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Melissa Lemay in Uncategorized invites us to write Zeugmatically. The word zeugma is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses”.