Alicia Ostriker

What is touch? A child in an airport hugs grandpa’s legs. The grownups smile. Braiding my daughter’s hair, drawing the strands along my palms, smelling them, that’s all in the past. But my husband’s whole body is in the present. And holding my mom’s hands, singing you ...

The banks were betting on derivatives and when everything collapsed our taxes paid to bail them out without any oversight what they would do with all those billions we gave them while the foreclosures whirled on spinning the country around like a basketball on some dude’s ...