One poem by Lee Evans

MANDATE

In the Maine Woods a pool is just a pool,

Unless it is “significant”. You pause

Beside the fragile water that the Law

Protects from folks who set out with their tools,

Disdainfully dismissing as soft fools

The advocates of shrimp, red salamander

And wood frog. It really makes you wonder

How sane men can persist with aims so cruel.

Our present governor is just the guy

To represent their party: He sips tea

And tastes environmental anarchy,

Pooh-poohing any sort of reason why

The forest should stay wild. You wish he knew

The laissez-faire conceived by old Lao-Tzu.

Lee Evans lives in Bath, Maine, and works for the local YMCA. His poems have appeared in such journals as Mused, The Christendom Review, The Metric and Decanto.  His latest collection is available on Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/shop/lee-evans/the-hazards-of-being-useful/paperback/product-20597798.html