The Resurgences

Are we, at this moment, in this year 2024,

on the brink - a hard fall -

to see new witchburnings?

Auto da fe, the New Inquisition?

I wake at night from the dreams

of American gulags, 

Cultural Revolution to purge

- to cleanse in the mind of the purgers -

concentration camps and re-education camps

and lynchings.

Fires of fear and hatred burn red hot

and I wonder - 

will it be my neighbor, my nephew, my cousin -

or some raging mob or secret police

- just who will it be

that drags me from my home

towards this mass grave

where I will die?