Poem by Debbi Brody

There are people  in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
-M S Gandhi

They helicopter in hay for cows in Chama
stuck in nine feet of snow covered grazing
land. Cattle huddle together for warmth,
less organized than arctic penguins, these girls 
continuously shuffle towards the center.

Where they once grew rice, Haitian 
families buy mud cookies to fill
their bellies, the cost of real fare
impossible.


Behind the train station in New Delhi,
small children, shorter than your waste,
scavenge in dumps for scraps of food,
fight off dogs for every morsel....

Yet,
we
count
sheep
before
we
sleep.


"It is good people who make good places."Anna Sewell

Debbi Brody is an avid attendee and leader of poetry workshops throughout the USA’s southwest. She has been published in numerous national and regional journals and anthologies of note including Poetica, Broomweed, Sin Fronteras.  Her newest full length book, In Everything, Birds, (Village Books Press, OKC, OK, 2015) and her chapbook, Walking the Arroyo (Cyberwit, 2019) is available at independent bookstores, on-line book sources and through the author for signed copies.

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