...Peter Balakian Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 1. After the sun rose into rust between gravel and horizon, after the scent of you oxidized the steel of my car going into the lidocaine of the morning air as the highway slid into northeast Detroit past Chill & Mingle, I did...

... with suspicion. Roaring hooves. Thwack of sabers. The night escape. The ship. Stacked bunks in steerage. The stench. The elderly. Time peeling. The deck. The railing. The jolt of docking. Gulps of fresh air...

...Admiel Kosman Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 I and my imaginary lover hover above the roofs of the Jewish village. Above the courtyards, dairy barns, animal pens. Above the awnings of the chicken coops. Amid smells and clucking, cold air and wind muss her imaginary hair, soft...

..., parched air of righteous palms, their fronds and a redundant sign with an arrow pressed against the b listering air reading S ’dom, as if there were another to offer anyone who passed a gift of shade possible explanation...

..., parched air of righteous palms, their fronds and a redundant sign with an arrow pressed against the b listering air reading S ’dom, as if there were another to offer anyone who passed a gift of shade possible explanation...

... My accident is your opportunity said the death to the life the to death the said opportunity is your accident My nothing. the but is nothing air, there the up used have deaths the is dark, sky,town the imagined the in stars...

...Andrea Moriah Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 Israel/Palestine Summer HE SKY IS MUSTARD YELLOW. THE KHAMSIN THAT BLOWS OUR WAY OUT OF THE Arabian Desert chokes the air out of your throat and stuffs it instead with sand...

... a place not for what happened but what its uses are They take their sustenance where they find it The air for perspective, the ground for food Anything that catches light is treasure The fierce eye, for hunting, cannot look back Their beauty is a perfection of purpose that continues...

... as people shed the façade of their lives and named their deepest pain. Jumping and shouting, they fanned the air with the fronds so vigorously that it seemed a wind was blowing into the city from the hills. But he was still too far off to be visible. The crowd doubled, then tripled in size as word...

... of Mexico. / Justin Stumberg | U.S. Navy A t one point early in the environmental debate, there was a belief that corporate executives and their children, having to breathe the air, eat the food, and drink (or swim in) the water, might possibly feel a certain self-interested urgency about saving...

... the creation of livable cities in which people work close to where they live so that they can rely primarily on mass transit. We would need to build environmentally clean factories that reduce the carbon in the air, rather than increasing it, and to more or less eliminate the production of beef, pork...

... And Birds are screeching in the calm air air calm the in screeching are Birds round goes That a train there's night...