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| A woman holds a poster regarding safety pins as a sign of solidarity against intolerance during a protest against US President-elect Donald Trump at Union Square on November 12, 2016, in New York. Americans spilled into the streets Saturday for a new day of protests against Donald Trump, even as the president-elect appeared to back away from the fiery rhetoric that propelled him to the White House. AFP via Inquirerer.Net |
This is what democracy looks like
Radishes, scallions and brown bread
No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here
Emma Lazarus, let's please have lunch today
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free
You wrote that poem already
A prayer for our country
Emma Lazarus, come with me to shul today
Sit with me by Lady Liberty
The New York Harbor, Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah
The little girl on her dad's shoulders down 16th street
Holding on with me.
Sarah Stern is the author of But Today Is Different (Wipf and Stock) and Another Word for Love (Finishing Line Press). She is Associate Director of Communications at Bank Street College of Education and lives in New York City.
