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Donald Krieger

Donald Krieger 2020   Donald Krieger is a biomedical researcher whose focus is the electric activity within the brain. His hybrid collection, "Discovery," is forthcoming from Cyberwit in July, 2020. He is a 2020 Creative Nonfiction Foundation Science-as-Story Fellow.
 
His work has appeared in Hanging Loose, Neurology, Live Mag!, The Raw Art Review, Seneca Review, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Asahi Shimbun, Entropy, Vox Populi Sphere, Dissident Voice, and others, and has appeared in several anthologies in both English and Farsi.
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Origami Microchap

Our Shared Humanities

 

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Donald Krieger CVR1 Our Shared Humanities 2020 Jun 

Cover art by Doug Pearsall

 

 

 

Our Shared Humanities

Nothing is deadlier:
dogma

so beautiful
courage

riskier
faith

seductive
privilege;

more profane
indifference

or virtuous
war

crueler
God;

no greater truth
kindness

nor greater lie
color;

nothing
more human
discovery.

 

 

 

Strange Days

...black men ...face ...a 1 in 1000 chance
of being killed by police...
-Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science, 2019

I woke to the governor's
stay-at-home order,
drove the turnpike anyway.
Each cop we passed,
and there were many,
I thought of my white Subaru,
and my skin,
like a thousand times before.

 

 

Discovery

I mainly think about
what no one knows,
nor I either,

how the brain works,
is God truly cruel,
why what I know as truth

you know as lie,
why you hate me
and I you.

 

--Originally appeared in
Tuck Magazine

 

Donald Krieger © 2020