The A1 Verse: All the worlds of this world
By Thomas Gaulkin | December 21, 2021
Illustration by Thomas Gaulkin
Every so often, a story, or stories, published on the front page of the New York Times are so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of them, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred December 20, 2021.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
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(from the originals by Sarah Maslin Nir and Stephanie Nolen)
Symptom of the season,
panic.
Sign of winter,
minds racing:
Is it?
Is it
emotional upending
in the world of
no defense,
shots, and other shots,
nothing to stop
the gap
in a world where
the weather, the news,
the world so far
do not capture
the world?
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Keywords: COVID-19, Coronavirus, Edgar Lee Masters, The A1 Verse, omicron, poetry, vaccines
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Thomas Gaulkin is multimedia editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Prior to joining the Bulletin in 2018, he spent the... Read More
