There’s a quiet brutality in the Latin phrase pulvis et umbra sumus—we are dust and shadow. It’s not motivational. It doesn’t belong on a recruiting Continue Reading
Philosophy & Poetry
Why?
“Bomb kills Iraqi childrengathered around U.S. troops,”was the screaming headlinethat greeted me from bright-colorednewsprint.It seems the Marineswere Continue Reading
Wrinkled and Proud
Only six hours of sleep?You have got to be kidding.I hung up the phone, sighing deep;get moving, time for planes to take wing. My boots could use a Continue Reading
To My Son
You are not mine to own and control. You are not my possession or trophy. You do not exist to continue my lineage and name or bear my burdens. Who I Continue Reading
Veterans Day 2009
“October has been the deadliest monthfor U.S. troops in Afghanistansince the war began eight years ago.” In the pre-dawn hours he stands,silent and Continue Reading
The Questions We Stop Asking
By Carlin McKeahow A little after ten at night, a high school junior sits at the kitchen table with a blank document open. The dishwasher is Continue Reading
Freedom of the Mind in Captivity
By Joseph G St Clair At Rodeo Uno, outside Guatire, Venezuela, the guards wore masks, military gear, and code names they had chosen to sound Continue Reading
Upon a Black Wall
Instead of being surrounded by soft pastelsand resting in a favorite comfortable chair,they are just stark nameschiseled into cold black stone. 1st Continue Reading
Moments Are Thunder
But struck by lightningSometimes I wonder what my heart has been sayingThat’s what it’s all aboutSometimes it strikesOften it’s thunder and underI do Continue Reading
Sleeping Wonder
Reality often does notOnly in dreamsAre we who we want to beSuch in a cold world Reality is often triteCascading thoughtsAre often what dreams look Continue Reading
God Only in Fear
The most devout heathen seems to find their deity in their moments of greatest tribulation. They preach the gospel of atheism with piousness when Continue Reading
Thought in Motion
I can’t sleepThought in motionI rarely sleep well Thoughts toss and tumbleBody shakes and tremblesMoving to its own ethereal rulesEnergy is the Continue Reading