The A1 Verse: Our world in stupor lies

By Thomas Gaulkin | March 14, 2022

(Thomas Gaulkin / Jan Kopřiva / Tetiana Shyshkina)

Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred March 14, 2022.

We suspect it’ll occur again.


How Far Will Putin Go? West Is Left Guessing.

(from the original by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt)

sounding the alarm,
a terrifying endgame
in western reaches


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Greg DuClos
Greg DuClos
2 years ago

How far will “The Clock” just stay as if nothing has changed?
The World is left guessing as if we have lost our trust.