Sarah Anderson, Lindsay Koshgarian: 10 Ways the GOP’s Big Ugly Bill Could Hurt You
The Trump’s new spending bill represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery.
Tony Gloeggler: A Good Bad Day
John walks slowly up the stairs
to my office every day. Between
four and four-thirty, after the bus
brings him home from day program
James Crews: Consider the Lilies
Consider these lilies, how
they’d never call themselves
broken simply because they
had to live in darkness
and cold for months
Video: It Turns Blue
Pari covers up domestic violence when her brother beats up his 3 year old daughter.
Sean Sexton: Not
Not the listless woods these days,
their ongoing summer song
same as the year-round sound in my head.
Baron Wormser: Groovy
It’s fair to say that “groovy” has passed out of daily parlance. As words go, it was a bit silly, a bit mystic, a bit glib, a bit droll, a bit low-brow, a bit artless, and a bit wonderful. It spoke to an era and seemed, accordingly, germane to that era and almost sensible in its glad frankness.
Michael Simms: The Cove
I loved those mornings
of timeless simplicity.
I learned patience
is not something you work for
but something you wait for
Cesare Pavese: Ancestors
I found out I had lived, before I was born,
in hard, sturdy, independent men, their own masters.
None of them knew what to say, so they just kept quiet.
Alice Friman: The Nick Poems
Do you know what you’re doing?
and she said yes
though deep in her virginity
she knew nothing
but what she wanted
Emilie Lygren: With and Without
Hunger ––
I can’t hear the word
without my mind swinging to Gaza.
Sandy Solomon: Widow
Now the mockingbird at the mulberry
and its mate on the fence pretend they’re crows
and their caws contend with the noise in my bones
David Kirby: Two Poems
Let us be like my friend Rick’s grandma,
who Rick remembers trotting alongside the car as his dad
drove him and his brother down the long driveway from
her house, tapping on a window until one of the boys
rolled it down so she could ask, “Did you get enough pie?
Sasha Abramsky: After Massive Cuts to Forest Service, US Enters Fire Season Woefully Unprepared
The results could be catastrophic, especially in states that have experienced unprecedented fires in recent years.
Dawn Potter: Why, as the evening steps forward,
as the late noise of traffic, of shrill birdsong,
dies away, do I always recall
those brief summers, when the old folks
reclined in the grass on the hill
