30poemsinNovember
Poems
In November 2016, I started writing new lyrics to Katharine Lee Bates’s beautiful hymn. Throughout the last four years, I have added verses. Today, I wrote this. O beautiful DemocracyWhere…
30poemsinNovember
Poems
Another thing I didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to love until college was squirrels. My babysitter in New York would take me to the park, and when I’d point my…
30poemsinNovember
Poems
Blessed are the meekFor they haveLearned to softenlike the clay at the bottomOf a riverAnd so they move,ProteanDiffusiveAmphibianNever attachedNever dryNever crackedNever broken becauseChoosing porousnessThey know nothing is wholly theirsWhich means…
30poemsinNovember
Poems
Remember the Trump signs that appeared like mushrooms overnight, shocking in their foreignness, isolated on the traffic island, and how they could not shake your faith? Remember the pungent blue…
30poemsinNovember
Poems
These are re-written lyrics to the 1998 Nields song “Last Kisses.” David Nields, who wrote the song, has given me permission to revision this for 2020. My poem #2. We…
30poemsinNovember
Poems
I remember that other November. Eight blessed days of itUntouched by what it would become;The extra hour a sweet gift After one last revelry:We wore Hillary as hopeHillary as superheroThe…
Journal
A Myth of Devotion Louise Glück – 1943- When Hades decided he loved this girlhe built for her a duplicate of earth,everything the same, down to the meadow,but with a bed…
Journal
“Did we just witness the end of our democracy?” I asked Tom at some point during the horror movie that was the first Presidential Debate––which was neither presidential nor a…
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One day in late April, when The Mask Wars were just beginning, my daughter and I went for a walk in our park. Just as we were turning into our…
