This year of political upheaval underscores the many different views held by Americans. Some of them so diametrically opposed as to inspire violence. Daily, the media brings these disagreements to our attention, fuels the fire of dissent. Reasonableness suddenly passe. Hot rhetoric the latest buzz.
I enjoy the luxury of living ten stories up with incredible views outside my windows. Thickly treed neighborhoods to the west, city street scenes on the east. One evening I realized this vantage point demonstrated the gestalt of politics.
The Beltway
Come nighttime
a river of crimson and cream
split by a sorcerer to stream side-by-side
Above
luminescence crowns
the brows of buildings unworthy
Below
streets set in black-wash
flare like jewels fallen
Steady lines of light pulsing stop-and -go
Which flows forward?
Which ebbs back?
Different perspective, same milieu
driven/riven by their views
Neither, both
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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