Tag Archives: responsibility

Tribunal

For what must I answer, after? Will the small spirits of mice accuse me from the ghost of my cat’s mouth? Will the kind words I did not speak assemble, invert, indict? What of ingratitude, of wasted love? How will they prosecute me? It’s all true:  every harm I allowed, returned, initiated. What shall I […]

Your excuse

Finding no one to admire I gather reflections my friend a Green activist flew across the ocean 1.6 metric tons of CO2 emissions to meet her new grandchild 58.6 metric tons per year who lives in Australia where a half- billion animals burn with our empty convictions. Our values collapse at the point of “me.” […]