He wore a hardhat and mustard-colored overalls, a working man’s uniform like the other men on the site. His demeanor said he was the one in charge. A small crew of younger guys looked to him for direction as their towering crane slowly inched elephantine slabs of curved, unpainted, unburnished...
Q&A with Xavier Vanderblue
San Antonio actor Xavier "Blue" Vanderblue encourages perseverance.
Book Review: “Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz”
Today, more than seventy-five years after the liberation of the concentration camps and roughly sixty-five years after the closure of the last of the DP camps in Germany, we find ourselves at a juncture in history that one would be tempted to call unprecedented — Americans taking to the streets, chanting...
On the Sea
Saltwater jerks & spitsbeneath all keels. Unwilling beast to carry ambitions across the world.Carriersleeps, dreams terror,storms, red sunfailing in the dimwest. Weigh the currentscurses for names,broken & unknown,an egress tolegal fictions:borders, love, & dregs of worldly goods.Waves, somewhere,lying calm, munch down the moon. Read More in Poetry
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My Normal Heart
This sounds narcissistic, but every few months, when I have a quiet moment, I like to take out my electrocardiogram and look at it. Oh, it is entirely normal, and maybe that is the point. I marvel at the tall narrow QRS complexes marching regularly across the page at 66 beats per minute, each followed... Continue Reading →
