NVN Wednesday: BURNING CAR
by Kip Knott
“We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent. But…” —President Biden addressing protests over the war in Gaza
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Whether it rises from melting tires or devotional candles or one child’s body or a million children’s bodies, smoke burns everyone’s eyes to tears before it gathers as the clouds one faction uses to construct their idea of Heaven and another faction uses to construct their idea of Hell.
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Kip Knott is a writer, poet, teacher, photographer, and part-time art dealer living in Ohio. His most recent book of poetry, The Misanthrope in Moonlight, is available from Bottlecap Press.