POEM

by Larry Fink

it’s that moment in — between

daffodils and tulips
bright yellow finches
are passing through
the bird feeder glows
next week the tender red
will color the landscape
the tulips will dance in the north breezes 
waiting for the southern sun
we as people will rejoice in our
necessary discipline 
we as a people can out last
and analyze this period 
this terror. this bright illuminator.  
this dark moment in human history
we as a world and it is the whole of us
will begin to rethink thinking
without blinking we all of us will sustain
the tender hopes of children and doing so

will be born again anew....

Larry Fink has worked as a photographer for over sixty years. He has had one-man shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, among other venues.