Recharging is a must
for laptops, phones and such.
Lawn mowers, trimmers
and vacuum cleaners, too,
Simply plug in rechargers
and they act as good as new.
How does one recharge self
and not sit useless on the shelf ?
How does one plug in again
after pandemic sets the world a-spin?
Too few outlets are available.
Too few friends are amenable
to one whose immunity
compromises community.
One goes solar. One goes green.
One recharges in the Spring garden
amidst life yet unseen,
brought to mobility
by endless possibility.
Charging ahead, hopefully;
making peace with rabbits,
squirrels and even skunks,
inhabiting a world much shrunk.
On such dreams endemics are born
to recharge a world too careworn
by too hot a viral sun’s passage
without blocking truth with sun glasses
darkened to hide the reality
that some of us will never be free.
annarino writes 