We are living in difficult times. The courageous editor of The Courtship of Winds, William Ray, decided to devote an entire issue to the 2024 election. My work, Trawling, can be found there, but I also urge you to read the other work in this provocative magazine.
Trawling
The Republican knows on my door
and I answer
He's not that Republican, the Big One. He's just a minnow in the little
pond of my town.
Once he helped me in a snowstorm to dig out my car.
I didn't know who he was.
The Republican knocks on my door
And I answer.
He pleads silently with his bulging eyes because
he's not that Republican, the Big One, with the red tie.
He's just a local guy in a lumberjack shirt.
He'd like to win again, serve up pancakes at the Rotary,
keep taxes low.
The Republican knocks on my door
And I answer.
He admires my Pride sign because
he's not that Republican, the Big One, with the ersatz Bible.
He's just a decent guy, caught in a fish net, raised to be kind.
I can tell.
He offers me a thin tote bag with his name on it.
Save it for someone who might use it, I say, and remind him that I'm not in the fold.
I know, he says, maybe recalling the Bernie sticker on that snowy car.
But you can still use a tote bag.
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Gabriella Brand 
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