Baron Wormser: Remembering the Alchemists & Other Essays
One sentence speaks for all his direct, well-wrought sentences: “We are inside the largest militarist society the world has ever known, and we are at war always.”
January 11, 2023 · 1 Comment
Richard Hoffman: Uvalde, TX, 5/24/2022
That his dead
brother he
bringing him home.
May 31, 2022 · 2 Comments
Richard Hoffman: Refugee
A man carries his door,
the door of his house,
because when the war is over
he is going home
April 21, 2022 · 8 Comments
Richard Hoffman: The Road
the groves and orchards
poisoned, fathers and brothers tortured,
hope abandoned with the other heavy furniture
it isn’t much of a road, the future
March 31, 2022 · Leave a comment
Richard Hoffman: Summer Job
“The trouble with intellectuals,” Manny, my boss,
once told me, “is that they don’t know nothing
till they can explain it to themselves.
February 17, 2022 · 4 Comments
Richard Hoffman: Good Will and Salvation
hold your tongue
so nobody ever knows
or suspects your real
origins, your actual class
December 28, 2021 · 2 Comments
Vox Populi 