Politics and the Clock | Sojourners

Politics and the Clock

A poem.
Illustrations of a diverse dinner party holding hands to say grace at the table with fairies floating around their feet.
Illustration by Jiatong Liu

We enter your home with a fist
Full of reasons & contradictions
A melodious clock is ticking
Candy-apple elves go round
And round on the hour and half-hour
“Let It Be” bells play on light
Windows partially closed
But the front door is always
Open for any elephant or donkey
To enter in — and we do
Friends know which is who
And When the night is dark
We sing with invisible ink

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