A wild-looking man I don’t know
from Adam begged a ride from the PO
to the Dorothy Day Center. He’s jazzed,
jazzed about a Thanksgiving feast.
With a shock of hair like a thundercloud,
he looks like an Old Testament prophet.
He got out and paused next to the window.
Standing so I can’t see his face, I was
blessed for life when a rich voice said,
“This world is not altogether bad.”
Mike Hazard is a filmmaker, photographer, and poet. Nine of his films have been broadcast nationally on public media; two hundred twenty-eight play on social media. His work is in many museums, including MoMA (NY). A collection of Hazard’s poems about people, This World Is Not Altogether Bad, was published by Red Dragonfly Press. Hazard likes to say, “Everything I make is a love story.” To learn more, visit www.mikehazard.org.
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