Poetry

Hillel Steinberg photo

By

Tammy Green

Food for Wolves

Her testimony tests us all

a howl with a smile most pleasing.

She is food for wolves, nothing more.

Civic duty done,

the halls of justice grow dark.

Wide awake

we judge how her arrow

has missed its mark.

The pounding resumes, no easing.

Fear, Fire, Fury pace the floor.

We forget to remember

to tidy up

and close the door.

Tammy Green

Tammy Green is a poet and playwright based in Huntington, New York. She tells stories of injustice, emotional and social upheaval. Her work has been published in Newsday, Long Islander News, Bards Annual, Poets Almanac, Suffolk County Poetry Review and WNYC.