Bio

 

Michael Braswell is a retired teacher and former prison psychologist who taught ethics and justice issues. His most recent books are “When Jesus Came to the Cracker Barrel” and “Gracious Plenty.”

 

Trigger Warning

After the king and his goose-stepping band
marched down Pennsylvania Avenue
wearing no clothes,
they chain-sawed the Tree of Knowledge
into enough kindling to light a bonfire
on the Whitehouse lawn
where books were burned,
but not the Trump Bible.

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