day FOUR HUNDRED and EIGHTY FOUR

KILLING THE TUNDRA

-- WASHINGTON —President Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress, who opened their first year in full control of Washington on rocky terms, are closing it with a flush of late legislative achievements: a sweeping tax overhaul…and a surprise deal to open up Arctic drilling
—Louise Radnofsky and Kristina Peterson, The Wall Street Journal

we thought it a daffodil kind of glitter
childish
a tattoo of smile

but found instead
a slip of color
dying in slow motion

--Michael H. Brownstein