Peace and Harmony

JEAN HACKETT

March 13, 2020

When the panicked uncertainty of first impressions fails to fade,

and seconds tick into second guesses every hour on the hour,

grip tightly onto the hand of stillness.

Feel it hush you away from body and self.

Listen as the mockingbird sings darkness into light,

his repeated repertoire a rosary of prayers

able to steer spinning stars back into predictable orbits.

Down is not drowned.

You will rise again like a tune

joined in harmony with other spheres.

JEAN HACKETT lives and writes in the San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country.  Her work has been most recently published in Voices de la Luna, The San Antonio Express News, and The Houston Chronicle.  One of her poems has been selected to appear on San Antonio’s VIA buses during National Poetry Month.