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Murmuration
On a sullen December afternoon
I turn a corner into a Hitchcock movie
Five hundred starlings staring at me
Not a murder of crows
But—I fear for a moment—a homicide of starlings
Yet they part before me like I’m Moses
Or at least Charlton Heston
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The rise of the American Muslim public servant
Barth’s refusal
Bonhoeffer’s warning
On election night, the religious left is back
