30/30: Golden Shovel poem #29

source: Vaccine Hesitancy Doesn’t Stop Herd Immunity

From blue mountains comes the vaccine

that protects silence. There is no hesitancy

from daring green cactus that doesn’t

protect invisibility. I cannot stop

a desert drained of love, while a herd

of the silenced seeks some sort of immunity.

  

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Here is how I am using Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.