Rayshard Brooks was drunk
but he wasn’t hurting anyone.
Just fallen asleep in the Wendy’s drive-through
blocking folk
picking up their Baconators and frosties
But no one seemed to mind too much.
(This, was not a tragedy)
and folk just edged their cars around him
and let him sleep.
When…
As of 2020, there are already 688 translations of this Old English epic. Why another? Franz Kafka once said that “If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be…
The famous 20th-century theologian, Karl Barth, once described the Christian life as a “standing in the air.” In other words, a violation of gravity. …
1. Playing the piano again
She was 90
when I took this picture
of her ancient finger
pointing to the word “There” —
as if to show me
where she was going
I had beckoned her to sit
at the out-of-tune piano
to show her a song she had loved
…
Recently we seem to be living in alternative realities — you and I — like being on the inside of an atom in which particles appear to be in two places at the same time, alternative facts present themselves, two presidents have been elected, and a democratic God has anointed…
