Poetry
For Sara
The chain jangles like wind chimes
in the emptiness
as my key springs the padlock open.
Ten more steps
with the tense stillness
that has waited all day in these hallways
following me down the stairs.
Fortune and calamity, / rushing over us and overpowering ...
The trouble with our state
was not civil disobedience
which in any case was hesitant and rare.
Dayshift is terrible if you don't have nobody to pick up your children. You tell them to call you at work when they get home. Or you call home when they suppose to be there. If your boss will let you. An Atlanta mother, interviewed March 1, 1981
For Thich Nhat Hanh, Cao Ngoc Phuong, and the refugees on, and in, the South China Sea
What is the point in saying no, what is the point in not saying no? The questions make sense as long as there is a point toward which the questions are moving.