For me personally, I started rereading these poems Friday evening because I was processing some suppressed emotions concerning the January 6th Capitol Riots— my husband was one of the 1st people to text me 2 years ago when it happened. I was horrififed. My husband actually lived in a West African county that experienced a coup. Anyway, I enjoy #reading #ElizaGriswold because she intermingles fact with metaphor & poetry opens paradox & surreality. BTW— Twitter felt so different after Jan. 6

I like patterns— it scares people sometimes.
#TheWatcher

“In the winter of 2012, the journalist #ElizaGriswold went to Afghanistan. It was neither her first nor her last trip there, but this time, the assignment was unusual. She was trying to find the family of a teenage girl who had set herself on fire after her brothers beat her for writing and reciting poetry, which the girl had done under a pseudonym.”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/152526/the-watcher

RE: #IfMenThen #poetry #ElizaGriswold

Cotton and his father Increase conjured the Salem tribunals.
Later Cotton tried to claim he'd never attended an execution, but he'd been spotted jeering in the mob, exhorting a drowing woman to fly”