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The Threat
Barabbas we can understand—a bit unhinged, but we have planned for that containable derangement,just as in the kind estrangement of Legion, as he styled himself,by the grave edge of...
On the Wrong Side of History
Smart people have informed me I am on the wrong, or losing, side of history. But will there be a right and winning side when the world is gone?...
How to Have an Abortion
Don’t think about the freckles he, or she, Might have, or how much hair, how big a grin, Or whether swimming would come naturally, Or whether—it?—might play the violin....
At the Church of the Nativity
Upstanding persons surely find it odd, The way these pilgrims crawl to Bethlehem. How baffling is the foolishness of God. Two thousand years have passed, and still they plod,...
Hail
Like this Auschwitz barbed-wire rosary” clipped with teeth and finger twisted, black-blood-stained, rain-encrusted, thorny, skin-pricking, motherly-misery- pregnant, passed from hand to bone-ripped ashen hand, brand of traitors to the...
