At the construction site of the
new Champlain Bridge,
pre-fabricated sections
are laid down, put together
to connect between
people, communities, cities.
At the Breitbart site,
pre-fabricated news items
are laid down, put together
to break any bridge between
nationalities, ethnicities, religions, opinions.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)