Pre Roe v. Wade

We lined up on the Mall

In the hot summer sun and waited

In our white dresses and slacks and shirts

With our signs Freedom of Choice

And finally the march began to move

Off the Mall onto the streets, all of us chanting,

Around a narrow corner where enraged faces

Screamed and shook jars of tiny bodies

Then onto Constitution Avenue

And the marble dome of the Capitol 

Floating like a mirage of Justice 


Kristin Moyer 
June 24, 2022