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Richard Michelson: Three Poems

Today, I am weary of my soul, forever dragging behind me, 
clanging for attention like tin cans left tied to a coupe fender    
long after the sacred vows.

December 17, 2023 · 4 Comments

Baron Wormser: On Moral Grounds

One can be humbled into silence and one can be humbled into words. Or one can feel both—the silence that underlies the words.

June 25, 2023 · 6 Comments

Richard Michelson: Angels with Guns Guarding the Gates of Heaven

My grandmother didn’t
live to see her youngest son, my father, murdered in a Brooklyn
gutter by a fifth generation, drug-addicted, unemployed house-
painter whose ancestors were dragged here like devils in chains.

April 18, 2023 · 5 Comments

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