It was rumored to have been made from the treeOf the first spinning place. Some said the sideOf a Spanish slaver spit from the sea.Others church bench, chunk of stage, courthouse wall.A widow swore her grandfather had helpedDrag it from his swamped fields after a storm.One leg longer than the others, it leanedLeft. It belonged to no one and was ours.Years pressed down on it with tobacco ash, peachPits, coffee rings, the impress of elbows,A knife-mark widened by a thousand thumbs.You can’t run your hand across the surfaceWithout passing through three or four fablesAnd a splinter that always finds the hand.Such a common thing in an uncommonWorld: this table, so worn down that it shines.There’s room here. There’s never any room here.It’s hard to keep clean. We all eat off it.
The Return Citizen Support Group in New Jersey has constructed a community that utilizes parallel structures of mutual aid to support formerly incarcerated civilians in their journeys beyond prison. America’s prison system does not end at the prison gate. For millions of formerly incarcerated people, release marks the beginning of another sentence—one enforced not by […]
New York City’s right-wingers, who evidently cannot handle losing elections, are dealing with their anger by once again attempting to fearmonger Jewish Americans into leaving New York, the most Jewish city in the country. Last night, allies of Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept the New York City Democratic primaries. Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Darializa Avila […]
Don’t take it from me. Take it from Fox News. Socialists are winning everywhere! This week, three Congressional candidates backed by democratic socialist New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani won “stunning” victories in their primary elections. It is even being called the “Mamdani tsunami.” The successes of Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Brad Lander confirmed that Mamdani’s own election was not a fluke for the city’s left, in what even the Bezos Postacknowledged was “a signal of strength for Mamdani’s political brand and the democratic socialist movement that powered his rise to City Hall.”