Poems: Linda J. Albertano and Her Brother, James AA Stone

Virtue rides into town on a
convertible Clydesdale. She’s wrapped
in blue-and-white
stars
and is eating an apple concoction.
Ah, Virtue! They want
you.
Your symbols
are so succulent! They want to use
you
for purposes of personal
adornment.

Virtue drinks nothing but
water
from glaciers and the sap of lacebark
pine.