Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, “Afraid Ancestral”
Panic is learned, I believe. It could be natural. Maybe humanity has an instinct to fear the unfamiliar. —Still, there are babies radiating brightness, trying t...
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Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “At Last the New Arriving”
“How was your birthday?” Well-meaning, polite people ask this, and I want to give a response better than “I had sushi” (I actually had P...
Emily Dickinson, “One and One – are One” (769)
One and One — are One, intones Dickinson. You could say, as the kids do, that Dickinson is being “extra.” Two — be finished using is her very next l...
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
1 The unexamined life is not worth living does not seem true. We can be very hurt in friendships and relationships; we can fall to pieces when goals, large or s...
Suzanne Buffam, “On Antigone”
Law spoke, says the poem. Law spoke, creating the world in which I live. A world where I enjoy Internet access and am sometimes of help to human beings. Law spo...