Saturday, June 14, 2025

Protesters


Emerging from their cone of green, 
The thin vermilion trumpets 
Sound their call to action. 
I want to ask who planted you 
In this dense thicket of blackberries and salal, 
Or did you volunteer to shout 
CODE RED to all the passers by, 
Inspiring us to do the same; to stand like you 
Beside the public thoroughfares 
Like signs objecting to injustice; 
Proclaiming your right to live and work there, 
 Orange in a sea of green?

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