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Flute
My first word had a hollow in the middle, a breath to blow a wish from a candle. I backed away from the wall of a canvas to see the dry leaves falling into focus. I read once there is an angel of history who faces us with wings of fire, her body blown backward through epistemes to come in ever deeper exile from her home. Dear Reader, she writes, when you read this, swallow it, drink. Think of it as music that is, like history, made of lost time, time recalled, and a resonating chamber.
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Deep Space Station
After a week on the job—and a dare—our crew chief decides it must be climbed. She’s cautious at first, slowed by the Danger Keep Out sign at the base of the gantry tower supporting the decommissioned radio telescope’s massive reflector. The gantry is a dark warren of rusted girders, catwalks, and stairwells. But it’s that idle time after dinner with just enough twilight left to get into trouble.
Therapon | Poetry Foundation
By Bruce Bond and Dan Beachy-Quick A poetic disambiguation of “therapon” (“ancient chamber” in Greek, often translated as “attendant”), and oneiric dialogue steeped in music and mystery, Therapon, by Dan Beachy-Quick and Bruce Bond, comprises 60 near-sonnets. The book breathes new life into collaboration with its fluid entwining of two voices whose elliptical, Socratic questioning recall poetry’s roots in oral and philosophical traditions.
Bill Frisell by Bruce Bond
About this Poet Bruce Bond is a classical and jazz guitarist and professor of English. He earned a BA from Pomona College, an MA in English from Claremont Graduate School, an MA in music performance from the Lamont School of Music (University of Denver), and a PhD in...
There's a useful scorecard for political accountability
Scorecards are typically a tool for measuring progress toward a particular goal. At Common Ground Committee (CGC), the goal is to reduce polarization. One of the ways to do that is to help increase the frequency of bipartisanship exhibited within our political leadership. Doing so creates overall favorable outcomes for our country and democracy. We need to calm the waters if we are going to move forward to address the serious problems facing our nation.
An effective score card for political accountability
Scorecards are typically a tool for measuring progress toward a particular goal. At Common Ground Committee our goal is to reduce polarization. One of the ways to do that is to help increase the frequency of bipartisanship exhibited within our political leadership. Doing so creates overall favorable outcomes for our country and our democracy. We need to calm the waters if we are going to move forward to address the serious problems facing our nation.
An effective scorecard for political accountability | Opinion
Scorecards are typically a tool for measuring progress toward a particular goal. At Common Ground Committee (CGC) our goal is to reduce polarization. One of the ways to do that is to help increase the frequency of bipartisanship exhibited within our political leadership. Doing so creates overall favorable outcomes for our country and our democracy. We need to calm the waters if we are going to move forward to address the serious problems facing our nation.
Commentary: An effective scorecard for political accountability
Scorecards are typically a tool for measuring progress towards a particular goal. At Common Ground Committee (CGC) our goal is to reduce polarization. One of the ways to do that is to help increase the frequency of bipartisanship exhibited within our political leadership. Doing so creates overall favorable outcomes for our country and our democracy. We need to calm the waters if we are going to move forward to address the serious problems facing our nation.
An effective scorecard for political accountability
Bond and Olsen run Common Ground Committee, a nonpartisan organization that seeks to promote productive public discourse — mainly by hosting forums where prominent figures from each party discuss areas of agreement on a polarizing policy issue. Scorecards are typically a tool for measuring progress towards a particular goal. At Common Ground Committee (CGC) our goal is to reduce polarization.
Augustine - Image Journal
Our heads are full of shadows: ———the bitter and betrayed, —————-—lovers, accusers, avatars, ———the friend who drank —————-—phantom after phantom, ———the lost extremities —————-—who wander ———the heads they leave behind. ———We are not ourselves ————————–—without them. ———I dreamt once of a man —————-—with a body so sheer, ———I draped him —————-—over a cage of birds. ———Goodnight, I sang, —————-—sentimental and afraid. ———I draped him on a mirror.
Deposition | The New Criterion
When, in a museum, you see Christ, again, newly harvested from the hill, do not be afraid. If mourners come to lay the burden down, to sanctify in scented oils the body for the journey, remember. Light too is harvested, ground into flour, amber, threnody, wine, poured into the musculature that tells you, the dead are far too beautiful to die just yet. We will need another hour. Our wounds will grow senseless, bloodless. Some will empty. Others close.
Offering | The New Criterion
To mend the unspoken, we will need a lot of water. Runnels, crystals, the tears of fruits and vegetables. We will need to make our way across the cathedral marquetry in the shape of snow, to hear a stray confession spill into the hands of the confessor, and the gold above us turns into a lake, alive with the last embers of day. An alchemist told me, when grief turns to water, it washes the wound. Then, it takes on the irons of earth.
Love Song - Terrain.org
Whether we accept it or not, the land itself is our earliest predecessor, the main character of all our stories, and listening to it, after all, is not a onetime undertaking but a practice. At its uppermost source, this book began as a love song to the rivers on which I’ve guided for 25 years and the land through which they pulse like veins.
No red or blue guns, but an American public health crisis
As we look 23 years in the rearview mirror to Columbine, to Sandy Hook nearly a decade ago, and just four years back to Parkland, the murders of 19 children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has once again highlighted our inability to deal with mass shootings: 20 more shootings have taken place since that tragic day.
Don't give up on America. We can still save ourselves from toxic polarization. Original
We’ve reached an inflection point in the United States. Toxic polarization, once dismissed as the normal back-and-forth of political debate, has gone beyond words and boiled over into violence. We saw the results in real time on Jan. 6, 2021, and in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in 2020. But warning signs were blinking urgently well in advance of those eruptions. Americans are rightly concerned. An astounding 71% say the country is heading in the wrong direction. It’s easy to see why.
Don't give up on America. We can still save ourselves from toxic polarization.
We’ve reached an inflection point in the United States. Toxic polarization, once dismissed as the normal back-and-forth of political debate, has gone beyond words and boiled over into violence. We saw the results in real time on Jan. 6, 2021, and in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in 2020. But warning signs were blinking urgently well in advance of those eruptions. Americans are rightly concerned. An astounding 71% say the country is heading in the wrong direction. It’s easy to see why.
Don't give up on America. We can still save ourselves from toxic polarization.
We’ve reached an inflection point in the United States. Toxic polarization, once dismissed as the normal back-and-forth of political debate, has gone beyond words and boiled over into violence. We saw the results in real time on Jan. 6, 2021, and in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in 2020. But warning signs were blinking urgently well in advance of those eruptions. Americans are rightly concerned. An astounding 71% say the country is heading in the wrong direction. It’s easy to see why.
Don't give up on America. We can still save ourselves from toxic polarization.
We’ve reached an inflection point in the United States. Toxic polarization, once dismissed as the normal back-and-forth of political debate, has gone beyond words and boiled over into violence. We saw the results in real time on Jan. 6, 2021, and in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in 2020. But warning signs were blinking urgently well in advance of those eruptions. Americans are rightly concerned. An astounding 71% say the country is heading in the wrong direction. It’s easy to see why.
Don't give up on America. We can still save ourselves from toxic polarization.
We’ve reached an inflection point in the United States. Toxic polarization, once dismissed as the normal back-and-forth of political debate, has gone beyond words and boiled over into violence. We saw the results in real time on Jan. 6, 2021, and in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in 2020. But warning signs were blinking urgently well in advance of those eruptions. Americans are rightly concerned. An astounding 71% say the country is heading in the wrong direction. It’s easy to see why.
Issue 112 - Image Journal
Evading Capture: Art and the Territory of Knowing Artworks can transform our intellectual landscape and reorient the questions we ask, even in the sciences. Moth and Rust The Lord does not punish with wrath but with mercy. Wind Give me proof, said Thomas, and he could see a hole in the palm before him, and inside the wound a glimpse Conversion of the Bells War … / makes machines / whose metal eats more metal and spits its out and on / and on, and never enough, and always far too much.
Conversion of the Bells
War in a mechanical age makes an industry of copper, leather, reappropriated bronze. It makes machines whose metal eats more metal and spits it out and on and on, and never enough, and always far too much. Always the man who ravages your silver, your pewter, half your nation’s bells, no matter their provenance and glory, how they bound each town in times of crisis, how they called from the market square to the farthest reaches of their jurisdiction. They would not survive.
Wind - Image Journal
Give me proof, said Thomas, ————-—and he could see a hole in the palm before him, and inside the wound a glimpse —————————————–—of the valley on the other side, —–—what I call, for want of other words, the world, —–—never my world, —————————never the earth faith alone imagines. This year is the hottest year on record, ———————and you can feel it pouring through the hole.
Laws should unite, not divide
For the past decade-plus, we have made it our mission to improve political discourse through our nonprofit, Common Ground Committee (CGC). That mission hit a speed bump with Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB 8). As heads of a non-partisan organization, we don’t take a position on whether abortion should or should not be legal, but we recognize the strong moral concerns held by both sides. We even understand how it is that the Texas legislature would think this legislation is a good idea.
Ending the filibuster won’t end Washington’s problems
Proponents of common ground — like ourselves — received some welcome news earlier this month with the Senate’s passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. It’s the largest investment in infrastructure since the 1950s, and it passed with 19 Republican votes. It’s a rare sight to see major legislation pass on a bipartisan basis, but, unfortunately, it does not necessarily signal a change in Washington.
On voting, conservatives and liberals should find common ground
Voting is at the core of American democracy. It’s a fundamental right of all eligible voters that should be free from political gamesmanship. Unfortunately, the politics of voting is creating the false narrative that we have to choose between security and accessibility — when the fact is both are not only desired by the clear majority of Americans, but some states are demonstrating that both can be achieved. Democrats and Republicans are in yet another game of political football over voting.
Why it's bad for America if President Biden gives up on bipartisanship
President Joe Biden on May 5, 2021, in Washington, D.C. President Joe Biden’s first months in office have been disappointingly familiar. While his predecessor’s combative tone is a thing of the past, when looking at actions (not words), it seems the president’s commitment to collaboration has disappeared. During negotiations on the American Rescue Plan, Biden essentially said that bipartisan support would be nice, but that he’d be willing to pass the bill without it.
Book of Dolls 46; Book of Dolls 48
March 11, 2021 46 The gods who made me small were so much smaller. Everyplace was their address. The crack inside the sidewalk, the tooth on its chain, the head of the quarter I rubbed for luck. They made my head a hole to hide in. They made the hole an eye. Just ask the leaves where they tremble. In them, this thing that is nothing. I call them wind, and the leaves go still. I call these days departure is infectious. It spreads another autumn like a fire.
Swan by
Here, in this writing chamber, with its desk set, vase of ink, the faint depressions of the blotter lit with oil harvested at sea; our weary insomniac, John Keats, is not well, though he cannot know this yet, what we know, how the story ends. He cannot see us, his future, let in a draft from the highlands and whisper of his ailment.
Bruce Bond — Great River Review
The day I saw the Creation of Man, the musculature of God reminded me of lovers. Or if not love: cadavers, the ones the painter loved to open up, late, cutting deep into the parts quick to yield and those that, heaven knows, were not. He had to know what feeds, stabilizes, links, how skin articulates what we do not until we break it. I looked up, and saw the science underneath the art, and I knew that I could always visit, I could message the lord of the dead.
Divided citizenry and government - a call to action for common ground Original
This election voters turned out in record numbers. Mail-in ballots alone exceeded the number of Americans who voted in 2016. Polling seemed to indicate that we would see a strong repudiation of President TrumpDonald John TrumpBen Carson says he's 'out of the woods' after being 'extremely sick' with COVID-19 Biden will receive @POTUS Twitter account on Jan. 20 even if Trump doesn't concede, company says Trump to participate in virtual G-20 summit amid coronavirus surge MORE and the Republican party.
Gródek
October 28, 2020 Issue 20, Issue 20 Poetry, Poetry By BRUCE BOND When the smoke cleared and took with it the sirens and the uniforms strung across our sofas, what remained were rivers, mist, whisper as a habit, red dawn in the eyes of the sleep-deprived. In the brush, here and there, beside the highway, the revenant scent of metal and decay. The good news was the soldiers were returning. And you could find them. You could see them walk the paths and asylums of the southern valley.
Why America needs you to vote for candidates who cooperate, not partisans who fight
The “new normal” that defined 2020 has made its presence known this election season. The upcoming presidential debates will not have in-person audiences. Door-to-door campaigning has mostly vanished. One thing that hasn’t changed in this climate is the rabid partisanship that has been synonymous with our politics for more than a decade. Elections are known for partisan bickering, and that has been on full display. But the issue goes much deeper.
Why America needs you to vote for candidates who cooperate, not partisans who fight
The “new normal” that defined 2020 has made its presence known this election season. The upcoming presidential debates will not have in-person audiences. Door-to-door campaigning has mostly vanished. One thing that hasn’t changed in this climate is the rabid partisanship that has been synonymous with our politics for more than a decade. Elections are known for partisan bickering, and that has been on full display. But the issue goes much deeper.
OPINION: When progress is gridlocked, more talking can help
Relationships Daryl Davis has formed with KKK members show how difficult conversations can be fruitful, the authors write. Bond and Olsen run Common Ground Committee, a nonpartisan organization that seeks to promote productive public discourse — mainly by hosting forums where prominent figures from each party discuss areas of agreement on a polarizing policy issue.
America needs vote-by-mail in November. Here's why both parties can embrace it.
Last month, Lee McFadden Jr., 63, made a choice. After recovering from COVID-19, he made the trek to vote in Wisconsin’s primary. He told a PBS reporter he confronted long lines and, unable to stand for long, went home. McFadden’s decision could be a portent of things to come in November. The risks related to COVID-19 are considered more acute for seniors.
To stop coronavirus, we must set aside partisanship. Here's how we can do it.
Something extraordinary happened in the Middle East. In the wake of this global pandemic, Palestinians and Israelis put aside their differences and pledged to work together to stop the spread of COVID-19. It should be a lesson to all of us: if these two adversaries can find a way to stop fighting, why can’t Americans? Crises have a way of bringing us together but, unfortunately, partisanship is alive and well in the United States.
Syrinx and Other Poems
Of all the songbirds, the nightingale wanders least in body, most in song, the inventions so prodigious who is to say what varies what, where a theme ends, variation begins. Those who read the whole arrangement puzzle over why. From a disarray of branches: the new species, breeds, and finely painted bugs to eat them. Of all the canaries, the brightest prospects ruffle the most delighted feathers.
Engaging in tough conversations is worth it. Even if we can't find agreement.
As we journey into a new decade, it’s natural to consider where we stand as a nation and as a people. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, are we better off today than we were 10 years ago? The only certainty is the uncertainty we face. The president of the United States has been impeached, a critical election cycle looms, and our nation appears more polarized than it was at the start of the last decade. It’s not all doom and gloom.
Book of Dolls 45
God’s carpenters are busy putting nails in the idea of heaven. Make no mistake. It’s hell. If you see my hand shake, do not worry. It is just the motion that persists, with or without my knowledge. I told my mom there was a paradise, just before she died. Before the end, words come out. The gallop of these hammers overhead troubles a dust so ethereal, I call them clouds or opiates or lies. If I wake afraid, it is nothing. Only the creaking of a house, grown small with age. And so I lay a doll at the door.
Advent - Image Journal
On an island in the disputed region of the Yellow Sea, blooms of smoke from the shelling of the garrison weave into one bloom, one force of nature so thick, they say, you cannot see your hands. The planet, we know, tilts on its axis like a man contemplating a problem, spun toward the horizon of another year, always forward, across a winter where we celebrate an advent so long past it could have been most any season.
Common ground in politics needs media coverage
"When we get lost in the rhetoric of polarization, we forget that we're all on the same team," argue the authors. Bond and Olsen are co-founders of Common Ground Committee, a nonpartisan organization that seeks to promote productive public discourse. Turn on any cable news channel and you'll likely hear talk about the divisiveness of our politics, and there are numbers to back that up.
Trump administration is in a unique position to make real change on gun control policy
As we continue to struggle with the events in El Paso and Dayton, we all must face the fact that the problem of mass shootings in America has been in the headlines for over 30 years, through numerous administrations, with virtually no progress made. In fact, the situation has never been worse. That shouldn’t be.
Sparrow by Bruce Bond
I am searching my ballot for the nameless. She is out there, in there, I call her nameless, but I am thinking of a man without a home, and I know: this is just one example. Want to read the rest? Please login. New to Narrative? sign up. It's easy and free. Email Address: * Password: * The password field is case sensitive. Account & Password Help. Joining Narrative gives you FREE access to thousands of stories, poems and essays.
The Garden by Bruce Bond
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If you want to fix the polarization crisis, use your vote to shift the political climate
The spate of suspicious packages and pipe bombs targeting prominent Democrats and the recent hate crimes have been horrifying. As someone who works full-time on mitigating the increasing polarization that divides our nation, I see intense disagreement every day. This was something else entirely — heartbreaking, appalling and shocking. These attacks and an increase in incendiary rhetoric have further exposed the festering divisions in our country.
If you want to fix the polarization crisis, use your vote to shift the political climate
Polarization has reached a tipping point. To fix it, start by voting for candidates with a record of bipartisanship, regardless of their party. The spate of suspicious packages and pipe bombs targeting prominent Democrats and the recent hate crimes have been horrifying. As someone who works full-time on mitigating the increasing polarization that divides our nation, I see intense disagreement every day. This was something else entirely — heartbreaking, appalling and shocking.
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