News feeds, social media streams, and airwaves
incessantly transmit pandemic panic.
Sequestered after stocking up on supplies,
I watch life in wetlands outside my window.
The ducks and geese swim placidly in the stream
diving for tasty morsels of fish and frogs.
A deer wanders through, chomping on the tree leaves;
nutria gobble grass; and birds devour bugs.
The finches adorned in their bright spring colors
sing love songs and flit about seeking their mates.
F.I. Goldhaber's words capture people, places, and politics with a photographer's eye and a poet's soul. As a reporter, editor, business writer, and marketing communications consultant, they produced news stories, feature articles, editorial columns, and reviews for newspapers, corporations, governments, and non-profits in five states. Now paper, electronic, and audio magazines, books, newspapers, calendars, broadsides, and street signs display their poetry, fiction, and essays. More than 160 of their poems appear in 65 plus publications, including four collections. http://www.goldhaber.net/
