Some claim
the federal government’s policy
on preventing violence
against sex workers
is little more
than hiding its head
in the sand.
An allegation
no one should take seriously.
It’s twenty below zero.
Buried under snow and ice,
the ground at the National Capital Region
has been frozen-solid
for weeks.
Where do you see sand?
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examiners current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday).
