A CATastrophe Averted
Katya pulled out all the strings
she had access to the lost ways
and so was not at all worried
when the Prince kept upsetting the apple cart.
She would have to go back one hundred fifty years
to her ancestors. The time machine was on standby.
She’d made a list.
Once she returned,
she would get the medicine and the books
with the pictures of the wild plants
and then she would bring them back
and share them with her people.
They would have to invest in livestock
return to the farm, keep their guns.
The Prince’s world would eventually collapse
the money would become scarce
some would starve
others would get sick and die
the rest would have to rebuild
but first, they must survive.
Katya would see to it.
©Cornelia Connie DeDona 4-4-18
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C. S. De Dona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters member of The Southwest Florida Branch of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and in Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In 2015 her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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