CHANGES
Everyone was at each other's throats,
insistent that the world was ending.
But I felt differently, as though I were just beginning,
or just beginning again: wine and music,
that great belly of laughter -- an undefeated joy!
The inward turn, some said. And perhaps it was.
Affecting what could be affected, incremental changes.
Away from outside noises,
those petty monsters of division
that could no longer reach me
like they used to.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Borderless Journal, GloMag, Red Fez, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.
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