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My heart needed protection in order to read Evan Gorelick’s lead article
(“A.I. Lockdown”) in today’s NYT newsletter “The Morning.”
Sam Sifton calls them “...some frightening
developments in the world of artificial intelligence.”
Frightening, indeed.
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From an NPR article about the discovery that a half-billion year old
spider fossil has pincers, which means “the ancestors of spiders
actually existed 20 million years earlier than previously thought.”
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After reading as much of the 4/6 NYT article “Trump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran” as I could stand, following a lovely day with the niblings.
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Based on the 4/5/26 NYT Magazine article “They Grew Up With Smartphones, This is How They Live Without Them” (interviews by Amy X. Wang)
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I just couldn't bring myself to write a poem about a $1.5 trillion budget ask that will slash "domestic programs such as disaster relief and teacher training."
From a 4/2 NYT article “Hershey’s Promises to Use Only Real Chocolate After Backlash” by Alice Callahan
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From the 3/31/26 NYT article “They’re Going to the Moon and They Know Not Everyone Is With Them: Can the four astronauts of the NASA mission Artemis II make a difference in a distracted and divided world?”
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“As the justices prepared to hear this landmark case today, reporters for The Times took a close look at their family histories. In each, the reporters found newcomers to America — colonists, enslaved people and immigrants alike — who paved the way for a descendant to ascend to the highest court in the land.” NYT, 4/1/26
Unlocked link to an in-depth look at the immigration ancestry of the nine Supreme Court justices who will decide this case.
“That’s a bridge too far” is a borrowed line from the summary of the situation in Cuba as it struggles with fuel blockades, found in the 3/31/26 NYT newsletter “The Morning” by Sam Sifton.
Chant of the June Garden
Boneset
hummingbird
Bowman’s Root
bee
zinnia sprout
hollyhocks
Cardinal Flower
weeds
coral bells
baby dill
fennel fronds
tree
clematis
foxglove
primrose
me
(c) Mary Lee Hahn, 2025
In typography, the small space inside letters is called a counter.
A Count. Account. Counter.
I’m
mapping
all the words
for what I’ll say
twenty years from now.
I consider their shapes,
their volume, their urgency,
even the nearly hidden space
in each letter, known as the counter.
(c)Mary Lee Hahn, draft 2025
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