Society
Alito Draft Causes Sonnick* Boom
A draft leaked from the bowels of SCOTUS
Putting our country’s women on notice:
States can own your womb, from cradle to tomb
No one can stop this, not even … Read more
America: the safest place to be?
Cozied into my recliner–
the one with the prayer shawl
to lean into, wrap around shoulders,
when things get too tragic too often.
I turn on the 5:30 news
as … Read more
Gundrunk Blues for Uvalde
Bullets pump from the chambers of our magnum hearts
Lead and cordite course through our clotted veins
Poisoned blood singing songs of annihilation
Psalms of death
Our love on sale … Read more
A ROSE FOR HER SISTER
She takes the garden shears with her,
Long handles, sharp blades
Crops burn in the Caucasus.
Aurora Borealis shimmers,
Streaming lilac over Chicago.
The irradiated night sky.
She steps lightly … Read more
As It Happens
As it happens, reeling
from losses of strangers,
Joan Didion always slouched.
She made it glamorous,
articulate, and suave.
As it happens, Desmond Tutu.
Said “You don’t choose your family.… Read more
Living The Dream
In Camazotz all emotion has been eradicated
We go through the motions of a satisfying life
Doing everything in time and just right
Never lingering on the curves of love … Read more
LAMENTATIONS
Today, I saw the earth stand still.
Thunder crashed and fire shocked the skies.
Skyscrapers toppled with a mighty sound.
Then smoke and … Read more
Britney Is Free
did you hear
Britney is free now
she uploaded her mind into the cloud
where she can live forever
Britney is free of the constraints
of being human
looks, weight, … Read more
#BringDannyHome
for Journalist Danny Fenster
There is a myth in Ovid’s Metamorphosis
that is hard to shake. Cassandra bound to rocks
at sea, the seer silenced by Apollo, truth bound
by … Read more
A Poem for Jeff Bezos
When the void was new, its origins were not blue
but a vacuum turned green,
ill with this viridescent epidemic –
we … Read more
The Courage to Pause. Simone Biles.
Easy to admire the fluid grace
the obedient agile body built with
hours of sweat and striving sacrifice
Easy to overlook the price. Pain
not just the muscle burn and … Read more
INPUT FOR THE HOUSE PANEL ON THE JAN. 6TH INSURRECTION
(an epiphany sans wise men)
Devout
standard-bearers
journeyed, followed their Star.
Believers obeyed its credo.
Proud Boys, MAGA, QAnon.
I AM
the only One,
shined the Star, who is Worthy.… Read more