Solidarity
by Oliver Scofield

Exploded
our million piece
hearts form ash
as snowflakes that swell
angry seas.

Today we will rage
against shores
of injustice then

our tide ebbs
compassion gently
recedes. Warm
waves now unconcerned
and cold turn

back. This heartbreak snow
stops until
the next explosion.

Oliver is an MFA student at Northern Arizona University studying poetry and environmental narrative. He works as a wilderness ranger for the Forest Service during the summer and splits his time between Montana and Arizona.