Universities are using draconian measures against student protesters who refuse to deem Palestinian suffering “unreal.”
The day you passed away, I stumbled
along icy sidewalks, searching for any
sign of you
As climate change fractures communities, folklorists help stitch them back together.
Is it true the distance between atoms
is proportionate to the distance between stars
and the world we know is mostly empty space?
In the backyard of our house on Norwood,
there were five hundred steel cages lined up,
each with a wooden box
roofed with tar paper
In the Thrall of a Dominant Death Culture
Throughout history, artists have created images of Christ that speak to different communities.
Young prodigy. Has a way with words. Brings someone out of a coma. Preaches peace, rages against bankers, tries his hand at carpentry, sexy woman loves him, meets his friends for dinner every week, they drink wine, talk, he says smart things, then, random as the rest of us, he’s killed. Gets to ascend to heaven.
What is the ethical response to witnessing a great moral crime?
Who mutters the low notes, croons the old riversift,
water tumbling into stone and sand? Who trembles
the cows clustered in the thin shade of the high hill?
This is not about Israel, Palestine, or Gaza. This is old-fashioned American racism and misogyny…
It was an autumn long ago
I was still young then, still in love with something
Nazi Germany committed mass murder on an unprecedented scale. Before and especially during World War II, the Nazi German regime perpetrated the Holocaust and other mass atrocities. In the aftermath of these crimes, calculating the number of victims became important for legal, historical, ethical, and educational reasons.
Life that’s embalmed,
life of the dolls
shoved in a corner—who
seem to be staring.