Our new world could be seen one wondrous morning
Witnessing communities of East and West in harmony
Breaking bread had replaced the struggle of hunger
Broken bodies born beautiful again
Crucifixes Yarmulkes and Keffiyehs crossed together in spiritual unity
All sounds of sadness transformed into harmonious song
Bringing the rich and the poor to a level of equality
Nations melting into one crystal clarity
A glorious sight to behold
Looking out anew
Together
Aaron B. Jackson is the author of Dogetry. He has also been published in over fifty publications and he is the former Poet Laureate of Jersey City, NJ. At times using the pen name Middlepoet, his work has appeared in The Bark Magazine, San Francisco Peace And Hope, Like One: Poems for Boston and Scripting Change: Seeing Past Sickness. His poetry has been exhibited in Finland’s Pori Art Museum as part of a multimedia collaboration with photographer Chi Modu and motion artist Jan Tompkins and he has twice been the recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation. He spent ten years as the Director of Visual Merchandising for Strand Bookstore in New York City and is currently the store manager of Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM. Jackson has written and starred in an ad campaign for the Partnership for a Drug Free America and he also served as a poetry judge for the Connecticut Office of the Arts and the Jersey City Independent. Currently he lives with his family in Albuquerque, NM.
