This Week's Writing 8/31/24

Gus Walz, Arlington, Wonder, and lots of poems.

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Okay! Here’s what I published this week.

Politics

Pro-Palestinian protestors vow continued pressure on Harris after the DNC. (Prism)

Trump wants dictators everywhere on earth. (Public Notice)

Gus Walz was bullied because he’s neurodivergent. (EIH)

Trump’s Arlington photoshoot shows that fascism is already here. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

Helen De Cruz’s wonderful book Wonderstruck explores Wonder. (New Humanist-print)

James Merrill and queer fire. (EIH)

Shaboozey’s country soul. (Chicago Reader)

The cosmic boredom of Death Note. (EIH)

Poetry

Wrote a somewhat jaundiced poem about organic community. (Recenter)

A poem for Kenny G. (Memoir Mixtape)

Poems about time trundling on. (Five Fleas)

I Am Old
Yet though the miracle
of imposter syndrome
eternally young.

Ignorance Together
I am glad to have been married
twenty-four years
to someone
who can’t remember
our anniversary either.

Haiku dilemma. (Five Fleas)

Haiku Dilemma
I must rearrange
the poetry books. Alas,
I’m not ready yet.

Productively cheery little poem. (Five Fleas)

Insomnia
You get so much done
when you’re dead.