by Susan | Apr 4, 2016 | National Poetry Month
The widest prairies have electric fences For though old cattle know they must not stray Young steers are always scenting purer water Not here but anywhere. Beyond the wires Leads them to blunder up against the wires Whose muscle-shredding violence gives no quarter...
by Susan | Apr 3, 2016 | National Poetry Month
A bomb photographed me on the stone, on a white wall, a burned outline where the bomb rays found me out in the open and ended me, person and shadow, never to cast a shadow again, but be here so light the sun doesn’t know. People on Main Street used to stand in their...
by Susan | Apr 3, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
April 4, 1928 Maya Angelou “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” April 6, 1866 Lincoln Steffens “We need some great failures. Especially we...
by Susan | Apr 2, 2016 | National Poetry Month
He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow. I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and...
by Susan | Mar 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 30, 1891 “Sockless” Jerry Simpson called on the Kansas Farmers’ Alliance to work for a takeover of the state government. Angered over low crop prices, high-interest bank loans and unaffordable shipping rates, farmers began to unite in self-help...
