"How to Keep Your Heart Open in Hell" —Ram Dass

How to Keep Your Heart Open in Hell —Ram Dass

cluster bombs lobbed— 
democracy fractured
85 degrees, Sonoma County
in March     weeks, no rain
obvious, this changing climate 
cruelty and rudeness unleashed
Pandora threw up her hands
left us to stew
boxed in our own undoing

our clearest assignment
DON’T GIVE IN
be endlessly kind, even
when standing your ground