Humanitarian Pauses

Jim LaVilla-Havelin 

November 12, 2023

Do        the spaces                

          between       words

give you

time   to breathe?

Thought so.

Longer

to load a truck, deliver aid

Longer

Still

to bury our dead

Jim LaVilla-Havelin is the author of six books of poetry. His most recent, Tales from the Breakaway Republic, a chapbook, was published by Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, in May 2022. LaVilla-Havelin is the Coordinator for National Poetry Month in San Antonio.