By Rachel Norman is a product of our time. It wakes up, gasping after dreams where it drowned in ice-melt. It believes we can still change. I saw it yesterday, running, and asked why it ran. It had no words to answer with, only a song it wrote for a child who cried last […]
By Mileva Anastasiadou It’s not like you chose the destination. But you step onto the car, or the plane, or the ship, attempting to find a comfortable seat. You don’t choose the seat, they tell you, so you sit where indicated, not bothering with questions. And it all seems a miracle in the beginning. […]
By Susan Kelly-DeWitt I think of him as a victim (a veteran) of war— every day was the enemy in a house- hold that thought children should be punished with barbed wire, belts, burns, punches, pinches, slaps, kicks, starvation. Where meth was the vitamin, sex was the money, where poverty was the neighborhood, poverty […]
By Laura Martinez First you are “pollo” chicken. Then you are “illegal” just so much contraband or “alien” strange creature from another place to be feared. Less than human. I walk with you through the streets of Nogales, sit with you as you prepare for your journey, as you pray the rosary. I see […]
