Can’t find a poem for this
Yesterday, among the thousands of daily aggressions across our convulsing continent, a mother and her child was chased by a sign-carrying woman, who was shoutin...
Category: Violence
Music, Poetry, Eulogy, Justice – John Coltrane, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Martin Luther King, Doug Jones
About a week ago I watched a documentary on John Coltrane called Chasing Trane (by John Scheinfeld); it referenced a song Coltrane wrote called “Alabama.” The n...
Declaration of a different reality
Thomas Merton, writing in the early 1960’s, observed: Here is the great temptation of the modern age, this universal infection of fanaticism, this plague ...
The tedious and the astonishing
Strife at first light. Fear for breakfast.Daily meal of hostility.All this is tedious. Hate is tedious.The man shaking his fist behind his windshield,behind his...