“Virga for Odessa”—spring storm on the scablands north of Othello, WA
Words without shelter
For the past seven months the images of soul-shattering violence in Israel and Gaza have tested the sinew of our humanity like few other tragedies. In the vortex of the death spiral—the indiscriminate bomb blasts, the famine and other cruelties—words get pulled apa…
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