The Sunday Poet: Zvi Sesling

Zvi Sesling

Zvi A. Sesling, a prize winning poet, has published in numerous magazines. He edits Muddy River Poetry Review and publishes “Muddy River Books.” He authored King of the Jungle (Ibbetson Street Press, 2010) and a chapbook Across Stones of Bad Dreams (Cervena Barva, 2011). His volume, Fire Tongue, is due from Cervena Barva Press. He lives in Chestnut Hill, MA with his wife Susan J. Dechter. ( Photo by Susan J. Dechter)

The Fools Are Marching

The fools are marching

in the streets carrying

symbols, waving flags

counting cadence, singing

drunken songs, marching

to victory, to defeat, to

cheers or madness, they

march over cliffs, into sewers

drowning waters, cleansing

waters, the fools march as if

ignorant, they march for love

they march for hate, they march

for the past, and for the future

while in the present

they are fools marching