Psalm for Simone Weil From the highest heaven God throws a rope. Man either grasps it or not. - From the New York Notebooks of Simone Weil Sir, what is humanity that you pay such attention to us, or men and women that you let us love one another? Words slide from you, dropping down to where you stride over glaciers and rocks and down the icy walks of the sea, trailing behind you a rope, my Friend, that we can grasp or at our choosing, cast away.
Michael Cooney has published poetry in Badlands, Second Chance Lit, Bitter Oleander, Big Windows Review and other journals. His short stories have appeared recently in Sundial Magazine, Bandit Fiction and Cerasus and his novella The Witch Girl & The Wobbly was published by Running Wild Press in 2021. A second novella, A Good Catholic Girl, is scheduled for publication in 2023. Cooney has taught in public high schools and community colleges and currently facilitates a writing workshop with the New York Writers Coalition.
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