Culling the Herd
June 1, 2020
A rightwing official announced�two or three percent deaths�is acceptable—to him. What�of the Black mother of three�drowning of phlegm in her lungs? � Tell the fireman who lacked�a mask how expendable… READ MORE
Article Author: Marge Piercy
This is our legacy
November 1, 2019
How will they curse us,the 3rd, 4th generations,the ones that survivethe deaths we left them? How could we explainthe world on fire, specieswiped out daily, oceanswith more plastic than fish?… READ MORE
Straggling onward
September 1, 2019
Every day is worse than the one beforea killing of all that was legislatedto be kind, helpful, healthy for allliving creatures, prisoners of this earth. The meanness of it gets… READ MORE
How does it end?
October 1, 2018
From Guatemala, from El Salvador,�Honduras they travel overland�with little, with nothing but hope�out of terror, from rape and murder � with daughters and sons. babies�they hope they’re carrying to safety.�They… READ MORE
I am wrestling with despair
November 1, 2017
Every day is worse than the one beforea killing of all that was legislatedto be kind, helpful, healthy for allliving creatures, prisoners of this earth.The meanness of it gets me,… READ MORE
Consider these but you won’t
June 1, 2017
Consider the child with curly brownhair sleeping with her dog in the backof an old SUV while her parents dozein scruffy front seats tilted back. Consider the child with brown… READ MORE
Dirge for my country
February 1, 2017
My country, you are hurtling us into a darkmorass. In that old war, I understoodthe Viet Cong better than I understoodthe Pentagon. Alienated, at daily warin the streets and movement… READ MORE
In the boredroom
September 1, 2016
Do they yawn, these masters�of our fate and wallets�as they cast their weighted�dice together, as they weigh�our lives and find them�negligible as we do when�we swat a fly? � Do… READ MORE
Trying to love Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant
April 1, 2015
First I will honor your name. Just as�those colonists first used, then abused�then tried to exterminate those whose�land they coveted, so you squat leering�at our homes, our bodies, our air… READ MORE