Calculating and Recalculating
“May I find peace, / safety, / love.”
The Unanswered Questions
“I cannot be soothed / because there are / no moral answers…”
Dusk in October 2023
“When the dark comes, let it. In its own way, it offers us balm.”
Water
“I am thirsty to return to the peace
of our peoplehood…”
The Ink On Your Arm
“What things do you have planned?
Do you march with torches?
Do you scream out for our death?”
Reaching Out
“reaching toward me, / as alive and animated / as my own unimaginable heart–”
Mirror of Peace
“Can we be mirrors of each others’ light?”
Celebration
“the shared livestream of celebrated death, / night and day of shattered glass.”
Making Chicken Broth (and trying to metabolize the horrors of war)
“I wish I could make enough soup to nourish the broken, injured, hurting, praying, people of the world.”
Not This Year
“I have lived enough to know there / are probably embers glowing…”
