A planet is dreaming
By Cheryl Caesar
In the last battle,
humans fire seeds for bullets:
make compost for trees.
(Published in Last Leaves, August 2020. Both the poem and illustration previously published by Highland Park Poetry Challenge)
“Tropical sunset,” acrylic with Floating filter from Lunapic.
Cheryl Caesar is an ex-expatriate, having lived, studied and taught in Paris for 25 years before returning to her undergraduate alma mater, Michigan State University. She now teaches writing there, writes poetry and experiments with watercolors and charcoals. Recent art and poetry appear in Words Across the Water, published by Fractal Edge Press.