For all my fellow Oklahomans

Blake Blossoms
1 min readJul 4, 2022

a poem about destruction and Leonard Cohen

C. A minor. C.
Crushed.
We’ve all been crushed
by two hundred miles per hour
wind, tornado.

Hallelujah.

A minor. F. G.
strum to the noise
of three schools
falling.
Two dozen children
missing.
Movie theater
burning…

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Blake Blossoms

(they/them) Poet, writer, artist, gardener, devout reader, using words and paints to figure out their place in the world. https://ko-fi.com/blakeblossoms