Laura Grace Weldon
Earth 2050
Culture evolves in leaps
(despite predictable backslides
into fear's white-hot wrongs).
One such advance took place this year
during the global referendum of
Coming Generation representatives
who unanimously decreed
all who command armed forces
must be grandmothers,
preference given
to great-grandmothers.
These Matriarch-led forces
will counter aggression and oppression
with the weapons long known to their leaders:
shared stories, fierce honesty, tenderness.
Bio
Laura Grace Weldon lives on a ramshackle farm where she grows absurd ideas. She served as Ohio's 2019 Poet of the Year and is the author of four books. Laura works as a book editor, teaches writing workshops, and maxes out her library card each week.