Rebecca Gordon: Torture Redux | Vox Populi
The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.| Vox Populi
The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.| Vox Populi
Always that moment when I wake up in the dark before dawn and the first birds| Vox Populi
Smyrna, Delaware—Bald eagles descended to pose on the banks and boulders on the mudflats. Shorebirds bobbed in shallow pools. Great blue herons, great egrets, and snowy egrets snapped up fish along…| Vox Populi
We are still ripening into our bodies, still in the act of becoming. Rejoice in the day’s long sugar. Praise that big fat tomato of a sun.| Vox Populi
Poetry is the remembrance and avowal of loss and is accordingly pushed aside.| Vox Populi
I am writing not to send you light, but to let you know you are not alone in the darkness. I am here, too, scribbling with no sight, no certainty| Vox Populi
you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from the schools from the prisons from the war…| Vox Populi
