Monday, April 21, 2025

IN RESPONSE TO RFK’S STATEMENTS ABOUT AUTISM

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by CL Bledsoe My child was born pyrokinetic,  daughter then son, something in between that’s the best of both. They can make fire with words...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

BIRD BY BIRD BENEATH THE LIGHT OF A NEW MOON

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a Haibun by  Laurie Rosen    After Anne Lamott  My son would come home from college, pull out the dozens of photo albums I assembled over th...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

THE MILLER'S TALE

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by Lynnie Gobeille I tend to be on the lighter side of white, don’t often get singled out— in fact at 74 I am barely noticed. I can walk dow...

THREE HAIKU FOR A WEEKEND RALLY

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by Renée M. Schell Cartoon by Nick Anderson Cherry blossoms sing Potholes, sticks, and stoplights chant Make Lying Wrong Again I wear a sand...
Friday, April 18, 2025

ON CRUELTY: RILEY MOORE AT CECOT

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by Jennifer Browne What makes human hands unique?  The human opposable thumb is longer, compared to finger length, than any other primate th...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ANDREW CARLOS

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by Joanne Kennedy Frazer Cartoon by Nick Anderson I am American adopted 24 years ago from Peten.   I am Guatemalan  proud of my  Mayan herit...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

THE PASSOVER STORY: A MIDRASH

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by  Joel Savishinsky   It seems that long ago,  there was a strong streak  of antisemitism in Egypt.  Something about domestic servitude.  L...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

SPRING (RUDE) AWAKENING

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or HANDS OFF MY SHOWERHEAD President Trump, who has waged a long-running battle against low water pressure, signed an executive order that r...

FISH CROWS

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by Melanie Choukas-Bradley The fish crows in my neighborhood Are engaged in conversation Not the sharp  caws  of their cousins More of a qui...
Monday, April 14, 2025

WHAT DOESN’T VANISH IF DENIED

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by Devon Balwit AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . Department of Commerce announces the end of $4 million in fundin...

TO THE ERASER

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by Tricia Knoll after Elon Musk’s posting on Xwitter the video of Milton Friedman’s use of a pencil to explain world trade. Erasing seems ob...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

IDIOT YEARS

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by Thomas R. Smith Our Mayan friend Martín says we’re sick with a collective “unmetabolized grief.” Civil War, Vietnam, Iraq, the list goes ...