Showing posts with label chaos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chaos. Show all posts
Saturday, May 04, 2024

THE ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE THAT MATTERS

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by L. Lois the chill in the air means the glacier ravines running down the peaks jutting above the treeline to the north are vertical cuts o...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

AMERICAN CREOLE

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by Indran Amirthanayagam An old man chats in creole on a bench by Prospect Park. Along Empire Boulevard a group of teens high-five kouman ou...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

ANGUISHED SOUL

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by   Jerrice J. Baptiste and  Roodly Laurore Dèyè mòn, gen mòn . (Beyond every mountain, there's another mountain.) —Haitian Proverb A w...
Sunday, January 08, 2023

INMATES IN CHARGE OF THE ASYLUM

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by Howard Richard Debs Win McNamee/Getty Images accompanying “The Big Picture: Danger ahead,” NPR , January 7, 2022 I stayed up until the we...
Monday, July 19, 2021

AS EMPATHY FAILED

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by Imogen Arate Cartoon by Nate Beeler (Cagle Cartoons) via Tulsa World . Let them face the insecurity of not knowing  if home will remain h...
Monday, December 21, 2020

DEEP WINTER CLEANING

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by Mary K O'Melveny  Painting by Chris Austin via My Modern Met . Our house always looks neat enough. If you don’t stare into cupboards...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

GOODBYE, CHARON

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 by David Spicer Charon, no converted souls await you on this side  of the river. Guided by your two ugly thugs, Klaus the Klansman and Hect...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

THE LAST ELECTION

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by George Held “The worst case,” [Barton] Gellman writes [in The Atlantic ], “is not that Trump rejects the election outcome. The worst case...
Friday, September 11, 2020

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

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by Dawn Corrigan At Least 37 Million People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror: A new report calculates the number of people ...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

SEEKING ORDER

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by Jim Gustafson the dead are closer sometimes than others. Now very near all around. Pushing the thoughts away is not possible now...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

CLEANING THE WHITE HOUSE

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by Cathleen Calbert Chaos presidency , sighed MSNBC. I thought of bombs blasting, black holes, and tornadoes, how no kid wants a ho...
Monday, February 18, 2019

WE NEED A CENTRIST

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by  Mickey J. Corrigan "Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said Thursday that he would be willing to abandon his preside...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

THE UNTHINKABLE

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by Tricia Knoll Firefighters from Brea, Calif., inspect and cut fireline on Aug. 1, 2018, as the Ranch Fire burns near Upper Lake, Cali...
Friday, August 03, 2018

POST-TRUTH VILLANELLE

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by Ned Balbo ‘ President Trump . . . can usually be counted on to blame “both sides.” Be the topic race relations, internationa...
Friday, June 01, 2018

A GIRL MUST BE BRAVER THAN WE EVER ASK OURSELVES TO BE

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by Michael Brockley by Cardow, Ottawa Citizen I wasn’t surprised, just scared. Chaos hides wild cards in its holster. An heirloom ...
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

SCARAMUCCI RHAPSODY RISING

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by John Dooley “But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away.” —Freddie Mercury I see a little silhouette of a man, Scaramucci, Sca...
Friday, March 24, 2017

LONDON FLASH

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by Linda Stryker Image source: Belfast Telegraph I forfeit my untroubled life flashed in Parliament’s windows he yells in a rose-...
Monday, February 27, 2017

THE SHIP OF FOOLS

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by Darrell Petska In Plato's Republic a ship of fools sailed— can you see one now, just rounding the bend? Already the ship l...
Monday, November 07, 2016

ODE TO AN OPTIMISTIC FRIEND

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by William Aarnes Image source:  The Never-Ending Nightmare That is This Election by Tom Tomorrow “nasty, brutish, and short” —Hobb...
Thursday, September 08, 2016

THE FIGURE IN THE TOAST BURNT FOIL

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by Alejandro Escudé The shooter was hiding in the gleam of a trashcan lid—he held the gun close to his chest and sped from lid to ...