Theory I’m Conspiring to Share by Kristin Berger

Theory I’m Conspiring to Share

by Kristin Berger

  (published in her 2022 book, Earthwork, published by The Poetry Box Press)

Love is truth. The heart is a muscle. Children flex it

without thought from birth. They swell with this knowledge.

Kindness is not fake. After a hurricane, first responders

don’t ask anyone’s political party, or ask for documentation,

not even your name, only Can you hear me? We are here!

We become leveled down to bare bones, humanity on the shore

like a strange, day-...