Thank you to Mary Antony Rossi for publishing my tribute poem in February's Ariel Chart.


https://www.arielchart.com/2020/02/ripples-on-pond-for-daniel.html

Ripples On A Pond

One dead boy’s circumstance should be confined

to the killer’s here and now.

At least that's what the slayer hoped for.

After all, everyone should understand his need,

to have done what he did,

in the immediacy of the moment.

Here's the flaw in that logic:

That one dead boy, known to many,

loved by lots, respected by countless.

His loss affects legion in a multitude of ways.

Like ripples on a pond,

we feel the waves of the loss 

spread out among us,

and these waves do not subside.