HAZE IN THE AIR

by Jayne MarekImage source: CTV News Vancouvermorning sky furred by a pale layer so the sun is deep orangesailor take warning          firefighter take warninga layer so thin it passes over the Strait like hands giving blessingbut...

ELEGY FOR BOLINAS

by Robert Lee WhitmireIn [California] where house prices are twice the US average, artists and developers are feeling the ire of a growing movement to �defend our homes and our culture� . . . A housing crisis is making homes unaffordable for the poor...

THAT'SA MY BOY

by Edmund Conti When your son (what a guy!) meets a Russian and spyThat�sa politics.When he then says �So what?� since they got diddly squatThat�sa politics.Dems will sing "What a ding-a-ling, what a ding-a-ling"And you�ll sing �Mar-a-Lago.�Let them...

SCARAMUCCI RHAPSODY RISING

by John Dooley �But now I�ve gone and thrown it all away.� �Freddie MercuryI see a little silhouette of a man,Scaramucci, Scaramucci, well, he got the Trump: fire-go.Thunderbolt and lightning,Very, very frightening me.(Galileo) Galileo.(Galileo) Galileo,Galileo,...

FOR SOUHAYLA

by Vera Ignatowitsch Souhayla, one of the many Yazidi woman who were kidnapped by the Islamic State, outside the home of an uncle who wants her story to be told. Credit Alex Potter for The New York Times. You can listen to her story on �The Daily�...

DOG-WALKING IN THE SHADOW OF PYONGYANG

by Devon Balwit We flip a coin over who walksthe dog, not tired, but edgy,for the loser glances covertlyupward, listening for whistles,siren-ready, side-eyeing each lotfor shelter. Somewhere in Pyongyang,a finger hovers over a button, a headcocks to...