O Anna Niemus Poems

Union Carbide desecrated
India with
killer insecticides
brought to Bhopal
...

Though poets often claim otherwise
... mercury is a much closer consort
to the sun than is the moon.
But the mind's mercurial thoughts
...

Sometimes He calls
through a look
or from a picture in a book
Sometimes He whispers
...

watching a long train of coal cars.. knowing
that God with 1 thought can turn every piece of coal
into a diamond as He can turn an apple seed
into endless orchards of apple food.
...

As the morning breaks in
holy pastels
above the battle's gory hells
so the spirit loves all being
...