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Born today

Was the eight billionth baby Born while her father looked out the window At the year’s first snow? Or in Continue reading →

A children’s class at the library

I tried to enjoy the children happily crafting at formica tables, running into the stacks and back to grab a Continue reading →

Shelter

Walking through a cool September morning Past webs the spiders built up overnight Breathing in the garden’s gentle dawning As Continue reading →

Privilege

My feet leave shallow pools in the damp strand Where narrow beach meets overlapping waves My shoes in my hands, Continue reading →

It can happen here

As events unfolded, surrealBefore our horrified eyesI spent the day unproductiveGlued to the internetlacking concentrationClumsily thumbingoverlapping text conversationsbetween groups of Continue reading →

The day after the insurrection

After the riots After the deaths After the assault on democracy They sent in the cleaning crew And vacuumed the Continue reading →

Learning that we would die

Each death was a stand in Joplin For the deaths we watched nightly on TV Morrison For the brothers who Continue reading →

8:46

George Quintonio Ahmaud Laquan Our nation’s crime is lynching Say their names Rekia Paul Raye Brian Kajuan It is not Continue reading →

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