[Kay Syrah]

I submit
to the sadness
of silence
and accept
as my own
the necessary
pockets of poverty
in a lassez faire
system.

But I admit
it is the dread
of the even injustice
of a command economy
that breaks my banks
and floods my resistance
with devalued currency.

[Camachee]

sighing softly
she dreaded
the unrolling
of mandarin scrolls
and solitary strolls
past bright lily ponds
reflecting one face
framed in clouds
and doubts