On Seeing the Half American Half Confederate Flag Waved above the Capitol Steps
it broke my heart seeing the hybrid flag
chimera
half stars and stripes half southern cross
unholy marriage
of the promise of human liberty and the obscenity of human bondage
as if the union Lincoln fought to preserve is no union at all but only a monstrous
amalgam of oxymoronic ideals
or is my heart is breaking because that is
who we are?