Solidarity
Sitting in the doorway of a dilapidated library
wrapped in blankets, morning, noon, and night,
quietly reading books or offering some rosemary,
two men, in solidarity, coping with their plight:
friends who’ve spent long years surviving on the street.
Two homeless men both holding out their palms
like yogis meditating, hoping for a treat?
Or a bite to eat? No … Just brothers in alms.
©2022 Tony Dawson All rights reserved.
Tony Dawson has lived in Seville since 1989. He has published in Critical Survey, Shoestring Press, online at London Grip, The Five-Two, The Syndic Literary Journal, Poems for All, Poetry and Covid, Cajun Mutt Press and Home Planet News. A short story was published in Chiron Review, summer 2021.