fierce young man stone-faced, with warrior gaze uninitiated on the battlefield uncertain of your foe your enemy is upon you but is unrecognizable to you you will not see it advancing this time until it is too late for this rival you cannot prepare with flintlock, with sword or with any man-made weapon though you […]
there could be as many ways to make love as there are ideas when the way is made clear love can pour unceasingly like water flowing downhill seeping freely into the small hidden places and soaking deeply into the ground the physical body is one way everyone knows about that about tongues and lips and […]
my mother, the incarnation the real presence she is attuned, she heals me baptized in her womb she pushed me out into the world to be delivered again and again by the miracle of her love mother, she is giver of life and my salvation
it looked so ordinary, inert, that rock on the ground but underneath was a whole world seething with life a thousand things you upset with your profound ignorance and offhanded curiosity in addition to the grains of sand and dirt there were hundreds, perhaps thousands of beating hearts, tiny lives you disrupted some burrowing deeper […]
You, with your relative youth your pout, your upward gaze. A young stellar object. And me, in front of you by decades. I see you as if in a mirror, behind me coming up fast in your body a month now perhaps for every year I’ve practiced being alive. I’m a supernova to your protostar. […]
It’s better when they say these things out loud. Then we know how they really think and feel. Radical bitches! http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/04/24/1916371/new-mexico-gop-official-calls-19-year-old-a-radical-bitch/ Nigger rigging! http://gawker.com/5994272/republican-county-commissioner-who-used-racist-expression-nigger+rigging-during-official-meeting-says-he-isnt-racist-because-he-has-a-black-friend Jew me down! http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-state-rep-makes-jew-me-down-comment-laughs-it-off-claiming-he-meant-no-offense/ Wild animals! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/mary-franson-minnesota-food-stamp-recipients-wild-animals_n_1322366.html No free lunch for poor kids! http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/04/24/west-virginia-lawmaker-wants-kids-to-work-for-free-lunch/ Vaginas! http://news.yahoo.com/nh-legislator-sorry-calling-women-vaginas-153755606.html Wetbacks! http://gawker.com/5992859/republican-congressman-don-young-to-local-radio-station-we-used-to-have-50+60-wetbacks-to-pick-tomatoes
So we wait to hear the words of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect apprehended for the Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent spree of murder and mayhem. This kid lies in a hospital bed in serious condition with a throat injury, intubated and sedated, while an elite counter-terrorism team stands by to interrogate him the moment […]
I pedaled hard. I furiously rode. I rode my bike towards the edge of town. The town where I was raised, but I was still a child. I rode and rode and dropped my bike and abandoned it by the side of the field. I had not yet been to the edge of town alone. […]
Motherhood is daunting. No matter how many coats of denial and idealism one whitewashes it with, it is a formidable journey and it is not always easy to stay convinced of the delightfulness of the upbringing and management of the fruits of our genetic entanglements. Life is up and down, and take-it-as-it-comes, and full of […]
The flyer reads “Celebration of life”. The young caseworker who knew Werner’s father briefly at the end of his life is in charge of this event. On the phone beforehand, she tells me she has only worked here for a short time, and before this, she says, she worked with teenagers, so this is new […]
