“You are failing us!” How incensed, Greta’s stare down, our emptiness profound against Greta’s stare down. Earth and the markets got hot, we all made money. Not a single cent recompensed Greta’s stare down. In wanton consumption we beg for extinction. Our repentant recyclers sensed Greta’s stare down. Two mean…

The table, la mesa, all geometry contained within her plane, she wobbles slightly, one leg missing its glider or perhaps it is just worn, or cut slightly shorter than the others, a charming albeit irritating flaw. …

And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger… Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, 6:4 At seven I was small enough to ride standing up in the van, Uncle Sonny and my father up front, me still in my party clothes: white hat, white holsters, tin badge on my chest. One of…

The United States has 270 million guns and had 90 mass shooters from 1966 to 2012. [During that same period], no other country has [had] more than 46 million guns or 18 mass shooters. — The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2017 And they have built the high places of…

Filthy Labors by Lauren Marie Schmidt / Curbstone Books / ISBN: 978–0810134690 / 104 pages / 2017 I was nursing another cold Peroni at a wobbly table at the Bowery Poetry Club when I first heard Lauren Marie Schmidt read “In Defense of Poetry,” the lead-off poem in her third…