Green Card
October 1, 2019
It turns out you might be�part of a mass migration (or�an invasion, depending on�the perspective of the speaker)�without even knowing that�your own imperative to go�grows out of the same need�that… READ MORE
Article Sections: Poetry
Poetry
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
She Works Like a Man; If a Woman’s Word
September 1, 2018
She Works Like a Man “She works like a man,” that’s whatthe neighbors said. To her daughter’sintensest shame, she works in the fields,like a mule, or man. While the mothersof… 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