May 3, 2025
Migrant camp at Bruzgi, on the border of Belarus and Poland, November 2021 - photo by James Hill for the New York Times.
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Tuesday 9/11/01 Lucille Clifton - 1936-2010
thunder and lightning and our world is another place no day will ever be the same no blood untouched
they know this storm in otherwheres israel ireland palestine but God has blessed America we sing
and God has blessed America to learn that noone is exempt the world is one all fear is one all life all death all one
From the Academy of American Poets Archives. This poem is part of "September Suite" by Lucille Clifton, 2001.