Elizabeth Mathes Poet Ghazal

After the Election Ghazal

After the Election

I switch off the post-race pixels, daring them  to awaken
disturbed sleep  presses chaotic  highways into sheets,   I awaken

the squirrel scurries  across the coaxial cables 
chubby jowls desperate to outlive the chill, a cat awakens

I lift the compost lid,  recycling my own disbelief  
frozen molecules of putrid air slice my nose, senses  awaken

in the four-billion-year- old dawn, a fisherman stirs  
he pokes a sleeping  bundle,  his grandson’s delight awakens

my office  key  wrestles with the curmudgeon  lock 
everything is,  as it was, but more worthy of  vigilance, I awaken


Elizabeth Mathes, 2016

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