With a face of wretched scars like layered pond scum in the seat beside me she says without prompting I teach seventh grade social studies because I love to bend a mind like molten metal before it cools hard. Hm. Hm-mum. She hums one, two notes like commas as she talks — tuning her thoughts. My cubs, that age, the hormones hit so hard you can hear their heartbeats. Beat-beat, […]
Archive | August, 2018
Healing our collective soul
I am not your negro This emotional powerhouse of a film features Samuel L. Jackson reading James Baldwin’s writings and pairs the two with heartbreaking archival footage to show us how and why white America’s “negro problem” is actually an urgent call for white Americans to reclaim their own shriveled souls. Against footage of beatings, lynchings, white adults spitting on black schoolchildren, and so on, we hear Baldwin’s words, I’m […]
Alan Walowitz | Matins
Though it’s usually best not to pay attention, you ought to keep an eye on the silent souls who wander out this hour, unwitting in our dark conspiracy of milling and mumbling to ourselves, or even to each other— till the birds screech to the tops of the subway grates readying for escape, then dawn on the lampposts, in the trees, and the peaks of the roofs. The martial music […]
Laura Grace Weldon | Four poems
Everything, Anything “Find everything you’re looking for?” a clerk asks and I say, “I’m still looking for world peace.” “Can I get you anything else?” a nurse asks and I say, “Yes, a safe haven for refugees.” For a millisecond, their faces soften as they take a deep breath of imagining then laugh or shake their heads or commiserate. For a few minutes we might even discuss our planet’s highest […]
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