IN THE FALLING DARK

by Devon Balwit Sheree Rumph of San Antonio prays over two of the 26 crosses erected in memory of the 26 people killed in a shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. The shooting took place during a Sunday service at the Sutherland...

BIPARTISAN TO BIPENNATE

by John BeatonEagle with One Wing by Christopher Hall.I saw a bird with just one wing.The poor thing could not fly;it fluttered in a clockwise ring.Another squawked nearby,similarly handicapped,but anticlockwise inthe one-winged way it feebly flapped.They...

ON THE SAME DAY

by John KotulaDetail of a mural in Santa Maria de los Angeles Church, Riguero, Managua, Nicaragua. Image source: Alliance for Global Justice.Thousands of immigrants from Nicaragua who came to the United States illegally, many of them decades ago, will...

SING A SONG OF CAYMAN

by S.O.FasrusCayman as in Cayman (Islands)�often confused with the homophonous Caiman: A large aquatic reptile found in swamps and closely related to crocodiles and aligators.To the Queen from her accountant:'About Your Majesty's money?''The poor are...

POLITICIAN

by Howard WinnThe doorbell rang once politelyand he was already smilingwhen I opened the front doorwhile his hand reached outin welcome as he said my nameand we agreed that I wasin fact that person enrolledin his political party and readyto vote when...

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VIOLENCE

by Diane Elayne DeesCarrie Matula hugs a woman who lost her father in a mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. Matula said she saw and heard everything as it happened from the gas station where...

THE FLOATING PEOPLE

by Mark TarrenKulsuma Begum, 40, a Rohingya refu�gee, cries while recounting her story at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox�s Bazar, Bangladesh. She said that her daughter was missing and that her husband and son-in-law were killed by Burmese soldiers....