The consolations of joinery
Kintsugi is a form of joinery, a word redolent of the arts of cabinet-making and carpentry. It takes us back...
Editor’s note
Peace?
have we met?
do I know you?
are you
the proverbial lull
before the storm?
are you the virgin
before… the rape?
…silence
before the scream?
are you a bird song
on a tranquil morning singing softly
before you transmute
into a screeching hawk?
are you the rationale
of dialectics
before strident speeches
of fascists, bigots
and unreason
tear our sanity apart?
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