Topic Tags: democracy

“a gift from ancestors who belonged from the outside / who left destroyed shtetls in Russia, in Poland…”

“I want to tell you that I never knew they hated us this much, still! Today is the 250th anniversary of America / I want to know when you knew it was time to leave Russia…”

“Some other night, we will call for courage. This night: The boat safely moored / at the shadowed dock. Sweet dreams.”

“Multiple voices once spoke of who we are…”

“I did not speak out because my voice was trembling too much…”

“May we be worthy of the freedoms entrusted to us.”

“We pray by raising our voices and blowing our whistles, by marching and by singing.”

“May we begin the work of making America anew.”

“We created this mayhem in the night time / because our hearts were full of fear,” and now we must live in its shadow.

Democracy was like weather // on those rare days when it’s so // right, so not-too-anything, // its goes unnoticed.