Fringe
What used to hang at the bottom of dresses,
On sleeves of hippie jackets and tresses,
Now hangs like moss in the dead of night
On the outer edges of the Left and Right.
Charles Ghigna is the author of more than 100 books published by Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and others. He has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Wall Street Journal, and served as poet-in-residence at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, and a nationally syndicated feature writer for Tribune Media Services.