America 2020
When a stranger smiles
as we pass on the street
I feel a smile spread across
my face like cream cheese
on a bagel. Now, mouths
concealed behind cotton masks,
we smile with our eyes.
It isn’t frivolous or phony to smile
this way; we need connection now.
Let’s remember this when
in a few months we might find
ourselves on separate banks,
enemies all along, with fear
in our hearts and guns
like coiled snakes
seething beneath our beds
--Tamara Madison
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