The Blogs: Tenderness {a poem for 10/7 from the Diaspora} | Jena Schwartz

The Blogs: Tenderness {a poem for 10/7 from the Diaspora} | Jena Schwartz

“What we need right now is tenderness”  ~ Ada Limón

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I read these words as I skimmed my email
and took the first sips of strong coffee
in my home, where, perhaps naively,
I did not particularly worry last night
about ICE agents…

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