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What Happens When You Forget to Close Your Bedroom Window
Tonight I'll dream that a colony of ants has dragged me out to sea, where I discover my belongings and I have become so much flotsam and jetsam.
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A Heat Dome Scorches the Heart
I want to smash a violin on the tree it was made from. To soak up the blood of martyrs with my eyes, die a glorious death and live on, weeping, sweating blood. It's 118 in Siberia.
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Status Quo Ante
I had a dream where from an impossible height I took in all the splendor and all the pain we’ve learned to live with.
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Correct Language Doesn't Correct Injustice
Changing the language we use when speaking about injustice does not, in and of itself, overturn the injustice.
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How to Prepare for a Coup in a Pandemic
Sometimes, taking a break from the news and work, I’ll spot the collected works of this or that poet and, for a moment, have context for despair.
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In Xinjiang, 7,000-miles away, a morning sun, reflecting off the glasses of early risers, the windshields of commuters, is so bright as to redact last night’s graffiti: Down with Xi.
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What of the Future?
I’ve been hearing Save the Rainforest since I was small enough to sleep in the safety of my parent’s bed or snuggled with stuffed animals— pandas, giraffes, monkeys, frogs;
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A More Perfect Union
When children by gunfire die, when the dreamer and the warden clash, when statues betray the sculptor, we proclaim This is not who we are.
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In Whose Custody the Flags?
The flags are at full-staff Though Jackeline is dead Of dehydration And the Guatemalan boy whose name Has not been released Is dead Of the flu—
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The Gardener
We have pitched an innocent man against the thousand blades of grass. Once a week the battle is waged; each green sword glints with dew.