First published on the New English Review Photo credit of CPR news Never (Can) Forget: Year 23  Time: Traveling  If you want to talk about it, it’s because you want to repeat it. Is it because I’ve talked about it that it’s repeated? Another lap around the track at the center of hell. By ‘it,’ I mean Columbine, and by ‘it’s, I mean mass shootings. I didn’t know I was running. That’s partly what’s made it hell. And by this ‘it,’ I mean the last two decades of my life. I just thought I was...

First published on the Voicemail Poems Photo credit: adobe stock photos There is a dog somewhere In my building That cries all day for love In our shared shelter Crying all day for love I searched the staircases And the old boxes people leave By the dumpster when it’s too full By the too-full dumpster And I brought myself To peer into the pool And then I saw the dog What a dog, what a dog Weaving back and forth On the skin of the water Crying for love like water When it blathers under a...

First published on Quillette The rule of law is the political philosophy that all citizens (including leaders and lawmakers) and...