Or: How The Assassination Backfired We pray his death to purge our world of pain, put the burden of our sorrow down. We pine for peace to celebrate our fear a final boot print in the slow path of our dust. Yet the pleasure his murder provides us suffers an infant death. Our grief from its grave rapidly resurrects, runs sobbing along the rivers. Families strewn to anxious tribes, we […]
George H. Northrup | The miracle of my conversion
I remember the exact moment in my last year of high school, standing at a juke box and listening to Bob Dylan. The new hymns were Mister Tambourine Man and Like a Rolling Stone. Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands overtook that other Lady always dressed in blue and white. The old prayers didn’t work anyway, but we kept the incense and the wine. “Oh wow!” and “Outta sight!” replaced […]
Rabbi Michael Lerner | The Jewish response to injustice
Jewish theology holds that there is a karmic order, so that evil actions will not always run the world. Justice and compassion are both essential to the survival of the planet. Unlike many religions that focus on individual sinners and imagine that they will be punished in some future not currently verifiable—for example in a heaven or hell after life, or in a reincarnation in some form that provides rewards […]
Martin Willits | Selected poems
Opus 18 A house of yellow rain has fallen heavily on vast fields. What we do next depends upon too many possibilities, locked in a chest. This is why the world never gets anything done. Heat increases, clicking like a beetle. Death has taken all the pretty colors. When someone asks what time it is, do not look for a clock on the moon; answer, honestly: It is too […]
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